- a large tropical fruit with thick rough skin and stiff leaves on top, that is sweet and yellow inside with a lot of juice
- fresh pineapple
- a tin of pineapple chunks
- pineapple juice
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- canned
- tinned
- fresh
- …
- chunks
- rings
- juice
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a pine cone): from the noun pine + apple. The word was applied to the fruit in the mid 17th cent., because of its resemblance to a pine cone.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See pineapple in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe rough end of the pineapple
- (Australian English, informal) a situation in which somebody is treated badly or unfairly
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