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pine•ap•ple



Pronunciation: (pī'nap"ul), [key]
—n.
1. the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves.
2. the plant itself, having a short stem and rigid, spiny-margined, recurved leaves.
3. Mil. Slang.a fragmentation hand grenade.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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