pineapple

plural pineapples · alternative archaic pine-apple

1. countableuncountableA tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
2. countableuncountableThe ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
3. uncountableThe flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.

   Spread lightly buttered white bread thinly with cream cheese; sprinkle with pineapple and press together, then cut the sandwiches in thin, slender strips.

   1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 117

   Synonyms: ananas

4. countableslanguncountableAn Australian fifty dollar note.
5. countableuncountableA web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
6. countableuncountableA light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
7. countabledialectalobsoleteuncountableA pinecone; the cone of the fir.
8. countableslanguncountableA hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)

   'Twenty yards and they stop outside Car 245. Men with the rippers give a double squirt at your window. Open it up for the pineapple. Centre man tosses in the pineapple and all three run back to the car. Two seconds fuse. As they reach the car, BOOM! Fricassee of Compartment H.'

   1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 131

   Synonyms: grenade, hand grenade

9. countableuncountableA hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.

alternative archaic pine-apple

1. BDSMA common safeword.