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Definition: Pineapple |
PineappleNoun1. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics. 2. Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pineapple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of pineapples, is exceedingly propitious. Success will follow in the near future, if you gather pineapples or eat them. To dream that you prick your fingers while preparing a pineapple for the table, you will experience considerable vexation over matters which will finally bring pleasure and success. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | Cone of yarn made up in a pineapple shape. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A cast roller, designed to keep the haulage rope centered between rail tracks. Spiral grooves on the sides return a straying rope to the central grooves. Works in one direction only. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
PineappleThe Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant and its fruit, native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The plant is a bromeliad (Family Bromeliaceae), a short, herbaceous perennial with thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem. Hummingbirds are the natural pollinators.
The single fruit develops from many smaller berries fusing together (called a multiple-accessory fleshy fruit). It is large and ovoid with a tough, spikey, waxy shell of many hexagonal sections, containing large amounts of white or yellow flesh with a tough, fibrous core. Depending on variety, the fruit can be up to 30 cm long and weigh more than 4 kg.
The pineapple spread from its original area through cultivation, and by the time of Christopher Columbus it grew throughout South and Central America and the West Indies. Columbus may have taken a sample back to Europe. The Spanish introduced it into the Philippines, Hawai'i (introduced in the early 19th century, first commercial plantation 1886) and Guam. The fruit was successfully cultivated in European hothouses beginning in 1720.
Common cultivated varieties include Red Spanish, Hilo, Smooth Cayenne, St. Michael, Kona Sugarloaf, Natal Queen, and Pernambuco. The flesh is very tart, except for varieties such as the Del Monte Gold which are bred for sweetness.
Southeast Asia dominates world production: in 1999 Thailand produced 2.331 m tonnes and the Philippines 1.495 m tonnes. Total world production in 1999 was 13.147 million tonnes.
In commercial farming flowering can be artificially induced, and the early harvesting of the main fruit can encourage the development of a second crop of smaller fruits.
A pineapple plant in flower. Note the purplish flowers
blooming around the upper part of the developing fruit.
(Enlarge image)The fruit was named "pineapple" because of its resemblance to a pine cone.
Pineapple is commonly used in desserts and other types of fruit dishes, or served on its own. Fresh pineapple is often somewhat expensive as the tropical fruit is delicate and difficult to ship. It will not ripen once harvested, so must be harvested ripe and brought to the consumer without delay. Therefore, pineapple is most widely available canned.
Signs of a ripe pineapple include:
The pineapple is an old symbol of hospitality and can often be seen in carved decorations.
- flesh that is firm but yielding;
- leaves that can be readily removed with a sharp tug;
- an odour of pineapple at the bottom of the fruit.
Food | List of fruits | List of vegetables Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pineapple."
Synonyms: PineappleSynonyms: ananas (n), pineapple plant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pineapple |
| English words defined with "pineapple": aggregate fruit, Anthocarpous ♦ Bromeliaceae, Bromeliaceous ♦ ceriman, Collective fruit ♦ Endogen ♦ family Bromeliaceae ♦ Karatas ♦ Monstera deliciosa, multiple, multiple fruit ♦ pandanus, pina cloth, Piña cloth, pina colada, pineapple family, pineapple juice ♦ Riga pine ♦ screw pine, Sorosis, syncarp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pineapple": bromelain, bromelif ♦ curana ♦ pina. (references) |
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Screenplays | There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) What you've got to realize is that the clever cook puts unlikely things together, like duck and orange, like pineapple and ham. It's called 'artistry' (The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover; writing credit: Peter Greenaway) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pineapple butai (1960) | |
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 | A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | (1) color slide shows a bowl of various chunks of fruit including kiwi, strawberry, apple, orange, watermelon, pineapple, white grapes. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Napili Bay from Pineapple Hill. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A pineapple plant with the fruit nearly ready to harvest. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Commander Carrier Division 15, Captain Raymond N. Sharp, shows the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Solomon W.R. Bandaranaike, emergency supplies that are to be delivered to flood victims in his nation, 11 January 1958. Photographed on the carrier's hangar deck, with HSS-1 helicopters undergoing maintenance in the background. Relief supplies include cans of sliced & cored pineapple, produced in Australia and donated by the United States. Credit: NAVY. |  | Pineapple field at Eden. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pineapple field near Cidra. Crops like these are rare, as almost all good land is taken up by sugar and tobacco. Puerto Rico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arecibo, Puerto Rico (vicinity). On a pineapple plantation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Manati, Puerto Rico (vicinity). On a pineapple plantation. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pineapple" by Elias Minasi Commentary: "Shot from a pineapple's crown." | "Pineapple 1" by Isaac Esteban Commentary: "Fresh fruit." |
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Business | The most important irrigated fruit producers of South America are located here, with 12,000 hectares of irrigated cultures, mainly grape, mango, pineapple, guava, melon, passion fruit and papaya. (references) | |
Economic History | Swaziland | Agriculture (9.6% of GDP): Products--sugarcane, corn, citrus fruits, livestock, wood, pineapple, tobacco, rice, peanuts. (references) |
Swaziland | Pineapple, citrus fruit, and cotton are other important agricultural exports. (references) | |
Honduras | Trade: Exports--$1.3 billion: coffee, shrimp, bananas, zinc/lead concentrates, soap/detergents, melons, lobster, pineapple, lumber, tobacco. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | In June seven children from Burkina Faso, between the ages of 14 and 20, were arrested as they traveled with their escort to work on a 10-acre pineapple plantation belonging to a man from Burkina Faso. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pineapple" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.60% of the time. "Pineapple" is used about 203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.6% | 190 | 22,288 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.46% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Taiwan | Taiwan Pineapple Corp | Thailand | The Siam Agro Industry Pineapple and Others Public Co. |
| USA | Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pineapple": pineapple family ♦ pineapple guava ♦ pineapple juce ♦ pineapple juice ♦ pineapple plant ♦ pineapple weed. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pineapple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pynappel (pine-apple), ananas. (various references) | |
Arabic | قنبلة ديناميتية, أناناس (ananas). (various references) | |
Asturian | piña. (various references) | |
Aymara | achupalla. (various references) | |
Bemba | icinanashi. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | isstsimamsskaapoo. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръчна граната (grenade, hand grenade, trench-bomb), ръчна бомба, ананас. (various references) | |
Cebuano | pinya. (various references) | |
Chamorro | piña. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鳳梨 , 菠蘿 , 菠萝. (various references) | |
Czech | ananas (Ananas, pine-apple). (various references) | |
Danish | ananas (pine-apple). (various references) | |
Dutch | ananas (pine-apple). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | chihuilla. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ananaso (pine-apple). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ananas. (various references) | |
Farsi | اناناس(گ.ش.). (various references) | |
French | ananas (pine-apple). (various references) | |
Frisian | anas. (various references) | |
German | Ananas (pine apple). (various references) | |
Greek | ανανάς (ananas). (various references) | |
Guarani | avakachi. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אננס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ananász (Ananas). (various references) | |
Indonesian | nenas (fir-cone), buah nanas. (various references) | |
Italian | ananasso (pine-apple), ananas (ananas). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パール編み (full cup, parentheses, parenthesis, pi, pie, pioneer, pioneer spirit, pipe, pipe-line, pipe-organ, piping, purl stitch, tart, tube, vasectomy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パイナップル . (various references) | |
Kongo | nanazi. (various references) | |
Korean | 바인애플. (various references) | |
Macedonian | ananas. (various references) | |
Malay | nenas. (various references) | |
Manx | annane. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ananas (pine-apple). (various references) | |
Papiamen | anasa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ineapplepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ananás (pine-apple, pineapple plant), abacaxi (pine-apple). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | abacaxi. (various references) | |
Provencal | ananàs. (various references) | |
Romanian | grenadã de mânã, grenadã (egg, grenade, hand grenade), ananas (Ananas, pine). (various references) | |
Ruanda | inanasi. (various references) | |
Russian | ананас ананасовый, ананас (ananas, pine-apple). (various references) | |
Samoan | fala. (various references) | |
Shona | nanazi. (various references) | |
Sicilian | ananassu. (various references) | |
Spanish | piña (cone, fight, pine, pine-apple, pinecone), ananás. (various references) | |
Sranan | nanasi. (various references) | |
Swedish | ananas (Ananas, pine-apple). (various references) | |
Turkish | ananas (pine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | соснова шишка (pine cone), ручна граната (bomb, hand grenade), ананас (pine). (various references) | |
Zulu | uphayinaphu. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ananas comosus, Ananas sativus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pineapple": pineapples. (additional references) | |
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"Pineapple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pinapple, pineappley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pineapple" (pronounced pī"na'pul) |
| 3 | -p u l | ample, Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, cripple, crumple, decouple, dimple, disciple, episcopal, example, fipple, gospel, grapple, hopple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, temple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, multiple, municipal, newspeople, nipple, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pimple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, ripple, rumple, salespeople, sample, scalpel, scruple, Semple, simple, tipple, topple, townspeople, trample, triple, uncouple. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-p-p-p" | |
-2 letters: elapine, panpipe. | |
-3 letters: alpine, lippen, nappie, nipple, penial, penile, pineal. | |
-4 letters: alien, aline, anele, anile, appel, apple, elain, lapin, liane, nappe, palpi, panel, pappi, penal, pepla, pilea, pipal, plain, plane, plena. | |
-5 letters: alee, anil, elan, ilea, lain, lane, lean, leap, lien, line, lipa, lipe, nail, nape, neap, neep, nipa, pail, pain, pale, palp, pane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-p-p-p" | |
+1 letter: pineapples. | |
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