pineapple

A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.

The fruit of this plant.

A hand grenade.

The cone or strobilus of the pine; a pine-cone.

The fruit of Ananas (Ananassa) sativa: so called from its resemblance to a pine-cone.

The plant Ananas sativa, a native of tropical South America, now widely cultivated and naturalized throughout the tropics.

A fish of the family Diodontidæ, a kind of porcupine-fish, Chilomycterus geometricus: so called from the prickly skin and the shape when inflated.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; — so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.