PREFERRED TERM
Pineapple
DEFINITION
- n. Formed within English, by compounding. The juicy edible fruit of a tropical American bromeliad, Ananas comosus, a large multiple fruit developed from a conical spike of flowers, which has yellow flesh surrounded by a tough segmented skin and is topped by a tuft of stiff spiky leaves. Also: the plant bearing this fruit, which is widely cultivated in tropical countries and in hothouses.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
- pineapples
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Ananas
French
Ananas
Italian
Piña
Spanish
piñas
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/753
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