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Tropical fruit
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pineapple
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The pineapple ( Ananas comosus ) is a tropical plant with edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries , also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the Bromeliaceae family. Pineapples may be cultivated from a crown cutting ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE fresh ▪ Somehow fresh pineapple isn't quite the same in any of them. ▪ Traditionally, the layering process ends in late autumn with the addition of fresh pineapple chunks. ▪ In fact one of the simplest and best ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "pine cone," from pine (n.) + apple . The reference to the fruit of the tropical plant (from resemblance of shape) is first recorded 1660s, and pine cone emerged 1690s to replace pineapple in its original sense except in dialect. For "pine cone," ...
Usage examples of pineapple.
Mayonnaise dressing is used for meat, fish, some varieties of fruit, as banana, apple and pineapple, and for some vegetables, as cauliflower, asparagus and tomatoes.
Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.
Dissect half a ripe pineapple, taking the pulp from the core in small pieces with a silver fork.
For a Christmas salad, use the first formula and canned pineapple if the fresh be not at hand.
He turned and hurried through the room to a long attachment that had once been a part of an early pineapple operation.
They settled for two small pizzas topped with sausage, pineapple, and ham.
I had gotten in ALL the fruit, and I had even added a pineapple and some bananas, to kind of balance it all out.
That pineapple, I thought, had come from my heart, just like Jack had said.
A sharp odor filled my room, the smell of an old pineapple on the table.
An odor just like the rotten pineapple, I could smell the same sweetish odor from the juices of this mixed-blood girl Reiko.
The pineapple I threw down was smashed out of shape when it landed, but still it rolled slowly to a stop beside the poplar.
The sound of the pineapple hitting the ground reminded me of the beating in the public toilet yesterday.
If the birds dance down and the warm light reaches here, I guess my long shadow will stretch over the gray birds and the pineapple and cover them.
Yet the state of the pineapple in the intestines suggested it was eaten that day or evening, and a bowl with cut pineapple was noted in the Ramsey kitchen.
What are the implications of Patsy saying that she did not feed her daughter, nor did she see JonBenet eat, cut pineapple on the night she died?