pineapple
A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long,…A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
» I want to buy a pineapple.
Я хочу купить ананас.
Я хочу купити ананас.
Meaning
9 senses(countable, uncountable)A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
Ananas
анана́сananás
анана́сananás
(countable, uncountable)The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
(uncountable)The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
Ananas
анана́сananás
анана́сananás
(countable, slang, uncountable)An Australian fifty dollar note.
(countable, uncountable)A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
(countable, uncountable)A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
(countable, slang, uncountable)A hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)
Handgranate
лимо́нкаlimónka
(countable, uncountable)A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.
(countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
- large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
- a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
Examples
116 sentencesI want to buy a pineapple.
Я хочу купити ананас.
ruЯ хочу купить ананас.
It's a pineapple.
Це ананас.
ruЭто ананас.
deEs ist eine Ananas.
Tom just loves pineapple upside-down cake.
deTom ist ganz versessen auf gestürzten Ananaskuchen.
I bought a pineapple at the supermarket.
ruЯ купил в супермаркете ананас.
There are people who think pineapples grow underground.
ruЕсть люди, которые думают, что ананасы растут под землёй.
deEs gibt Menschen, die glauben, Ananas wüchsen in der Erde.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-WFrom Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German pīnaphel, and early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine + apple.
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Forms
plural: pineapplesSynonyms
6 synonyms- large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated:ananas
- a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics:pineapple plantAnanas comosus
Word family
30 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable