pineapplen.
/ˈpʌɪnˌapl/, U.S. /ˈpaɪˌnæp(ə)l/ I. A tree, plant, or part of this.† 1. A pine tree or pine trees; also collectively. Obsolete.
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pine treeeOE
pineOE
pine-nut treec1330
pineapplec1390
pineapple treea1398
mountain pine1597
pine1597
mountain pine1601
frankincense1611
rosin flower?1611
black pine1683
Scotch pine1706
yellow pine1709
Jersey pine1743
loblolly pine1760
mugoa1768
Scots pine1774
Scotch fir1777
arrow plant1779
scrub pine1791
Georgia pine1796
old field pine1797
tamarack1805
grey pine1810
pond pine1810
New Jersey pine1818
loblolly1819
Corsican pine1824
celery-top pine1827
toatoa1831
heavy-wooded pine1836
nut pine1845
celery pine1851
celery-topped pine1851
sugar-pine1853
western white pine1857
Jeffrey1858
Korean pine1858
lodge-pole pine1859
jack pine1863
whitebark pine1864
twisted pine1866
Monterey pine1868
tanekaha1875
chir1882
slash-pine1882
celery-leaved pine1883
knee-pine1884
knobcone pine1884
matsu1884
meadow pine1884
Alaska pine1890
limber pine1901
bristlecone pine1908
o-matsu1916
insignis1920
radiata1953
c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 82 Þe Briddes in Blossoms, þei beeren wel loud On olyves and amylliers and al kynde of trees... On peren and pynappel [v.rr. pynapples, pyoune appilles] þei ioyken in pees.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 212v Þe tree moot nedes strechche and sprede, as it fareþ in pinappil and in palme.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 170v (MED) Take..þe barke of þe pine appel drosse of lede, mirre, galles ana.
1534 Househ. Bk. Sir Edward Don (Bucks. Rec. Soc.) (2004) 275 Item. I did geve..for the bryngyng of pyneappuls iiiid.
1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations II. ii. 79 The greater part of the quadrangle [is] set with sauage trees, as Okes, Chestnuts, Cypresse, Pineapples, Cedars, and other such like that we do want.
2. † b. A pine nut. Obsolete.
a. A pine cone. Now English regional (rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone
pine nuteOE
nutOE
pineapplea1398
cone1562
cone-nut1562
pineapple nut1568
clog1577
chat1697
fir-apple1712
pine cone1723
strobilus1753
strobile1777
fir-bob1854
fir-ball1878
dennebol1909
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 241 Pynea, þe pynappel, is þe fruyt of þe pyne tree... The pyneappel is most grete notte and conteyneþ in it self in stede of fruyt many curnelles.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 54 (MED) The schappe, forsoþe, of þe herte is in þe manere of a pyne appel iturned wiþynne.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 279 A Pynappylle, pinum [perh. read pineum].
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. I.i The Harte hath the shape and forme of a Pyneapple.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. F7 [Artichokes] somewhat resemble Pine-apples, consisting of many skales, compacted Globe-wise.
1609 R. Hakluyt tr. Virginia richly Valued 9 Other trees which beare a fruit which they call Ananes, in making and bignes like to a small Pineapple.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pignotat, the preserued kernell of a Pine-apple, or conserue of Pine-kernells.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 69 To outward view it [sc. the Ananas] seems, when it is whole, to resemble our Pine-Apple.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 147 The Pine is a Tree very different from the Fir..Its Fruit is call'd the Pine-Apple.
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep ii. ii. 134 And to come by Plantations of this Fir-tree in a cheap and easy Way, it is only laying their Cones, or what we call Pine-Apples, near a Fire, and the Heat will cause them to open, so that you may get out the seed with Ease.
a1903 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 510/2 Pine-apple, War[wickshire].., the cone of the fir.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > other edible seeds > pine-seeds
pine nuteOE
pines1327
pineapple kernela1398
pineapple seed?1440
pignon1526
pineapple1560
pinyon1577
pine kernel1598
neoza1832
piñon1834
pignoli1841
cembra nut1842
pinyon1846
cedar-nut1863
pignolia1891
Indian nut1922
pit1947
1560 in S. Adams Househ. Accts. R. Dudley (1995) 139 For a pound of pynneapple compffets xiiijd.
1586 T. Newton tr. Olde Mans Dietarie sig. C4v Dates also, and Pyne Apples are not good, for that they cause gnawing in the stomack.
1592 J. Eliot Survay France 72 Okes and Pine-trees, as well male.., as female that bringeth foorth the pyneapples and kyrnels which are good to be eaten with their Almonds.
3. 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. Cf. pine n.2 4a.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pineapple > [noun]
pine1587
pineapple1624
king pine1657
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > pineapple
pina1572
pine1587
ananas1613
pineapple1624
king pine1657
crown1683
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > pineapple plant
ananas1613
pineapple1624
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 (Bermudas) The most delicate Pine-apples, Plantans, and Papawes.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 58 The Ananas or Pine-Apple is accounted the most delicious fruit..of all America.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 277 The Kapa-Tsiakka or Ananas, called by our American planters, The Pine-Apple.
1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 188 I had..given a guinea for two pine-apples.
1790 J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 64 The gardens furnish..excellent pumpkins, and pine-apples of a small and indifferent kind.
1804 tr. J. B. Piguenard Zoflora I. 33 Negroes, who came..with oranges, lemons, pine apples, sapotillas, and all the different fruits of the country to sell.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 186 Vessels can now bring ripe pine-apples from the West Indies to England in pretty good condition.
1927 R. J. H. Sidney In Brit. Malaya To-day 105 At the back of the house grow..pineapples and mangosteen trees.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vii. 95 All around was a wild jungle of lemon trees, thorny roses, pineapples, poinsettias.
1986 D. Johnson Stars at Noon (1987) 35 Mounds of crushed ice in which were bedded down sliced pineapple and three or four kinds of melon.
4. In full pineapple strawberry. A form of the common garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, a hybrid between the beach strawberry, F. chiloensis, and the Virginian strawberry, F. virginiana, but formerly often regarded as a variety of the former. Also: the fruit of this plant. Now historical.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > strawberry > types of
capron1693
hautboy1731
pine strawberry1754
Alpine1771
scarlet strawberry1786
sow-tit1788
Royal Sovereign1795
pineapple strawberry1796
scarlet1815
1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xvii. 350 Strawberry: Of this..fine flavoured fruit, we have the following sorts. Red, white, and green wood, and white Alpine, scarlet, Carolina, hautboy, pine-apple.
1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 249 Fragaria..grandiflora..pineapple-strawberry.
1862 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 3) p. xlvii F. Virginiana... Its crosses with the next [sc. F. Chilensis] have given origin to the Pine-apple, and the greater part of the large sorts now cultivated.
1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) IV. 2040/1 Of these [fertile plants] the most celebrated was the ‘Fraisier-ananas’ (i.e. Pineapple Strawberry).
II. Extended uses.
5. An ornament or ornamental design in the shape of a pine cone or (later also) a pineapple.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > fruit
pomegranatea1382
pineapple1448
strawberry1523
fruitage1600
pine1790
1448 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1906) 12 15 (MED) Also ij clothes of gold, the grund of Rede Baudkyn wt pyneapplys of gold.
1483 Wardrobe Acct. in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1807) I. 29 Blue clothe of gold wroght with netts and pyne appels.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iii. vii. 77 [Some] take the leaves of this coat to be pine-apples.
1760 in G. W. Williams St. Michael's, Charleston (1951) ii. iv. 168 1 Pine Apple of the top of the Pulpit.
1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xliv. 417 A slender square minaret terminating in a ball or pine-apple.
1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands 14 A pump with a gilt pine-apple at the top of it.
1882 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry vi. 107 Few Fruits are used as Heraldic Charges; the principal are, the Fir-cone, commonly called Pine-apple; the Acorn; and the Pear.
1939 A. Christie Murder is Easy xv. 174 This gate..had two handsome gate pillars surmounted by two vast pink pine-apples.
2000 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 23 Sept. g1 Include architectural forms, such as finials, pineapples and columns, in the mix and incorporate them into significant places in the garden.
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a. slang. Short for pineapple bomb n. at Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade
trombe1562
grenade1591
grenado1611
granata1637
hand grenade1637
bag-granado1638
shell1647
glass-grenade1664
globe1672
flask1769
petrol bomb1903
rifle grenade1909
hairbrush1916
Mills1916
pineapple bomb1916
stick grenade1917
fragmentation bomb1918
pineapple1918
potato-masher grenade1925
spitball1925
Molotov cocktail1940
sticky bomb1940
stick-bomb1941
red devila1944
stun grenade1977
flash-bang1982
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > other bombs
iron bomb1759
suicide bomb1889
crump1914
radio bomb1914
marmite1915
pineapple bomb1916
pineapple1918
germ bomb1921
stick-bomb1928
bomblet1937
breadbasket1940
flash bomb1940
blockbuster1942
butterfly bomb1942
screamer1942
plastic bomb1944
napalm bomb1945
mail bomb1972
blast bomb1976
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Doing their Bit iii. 45 We saw ‘pineapple bombs’ or hand grenades being made—‘pineapple’ being a neat description of the shape and crisscross pattern of lines marking the segments into which the grenade bursts.]
1918 R. H. Knyvett ‘Over There’ with Australians 193 But Fritz can be very obstinate on occasions, and all our teasing with rifle-grenades failed to make him retaliate with anything larger than ‘pineapples’ (light trench-mortars).
1932 E. Wallace When Gangs came to London xv. 118 ‘By “pineapple” I mean “bomb”,’ said Jiggs gravely. ‘It's part of the racketeer's equipment.’
1987 E. Leonard Bandits xxvi. 336 ‘MK-two,..they call a pineapple.’ He looked at Jack, offering him the grenade.
b. British slang. Unemployment benefit, the dole; esp. in on the pineapple. Now rare.
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unemployment benefit1909
the dole1919
buroo1934
pineapple1937
rocking-chair money1938
susso1941
unemployment1976
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 632/1 Pine-apple, on the, on parish relief.
1971 Observer 23 May 7 ‘There were just too many people on the pineapple.’ The ‘pineapple’ is slang for the dole.
c. Australian colloquial to get the wrong (also rough) end of the pineapple and variants: to receive unfair or unfavourable treatment; to get a raw deal.
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1961 R. Lawler Piccadilly Bushman 37 He'll know what I mean when I talk of getting the wrong end of the pineapple.
1971 Age (Melbourne) 29 Sept. 19 Your modern Collingwood supporter has, to be absolutely frank, had the rough end of the pineapple.
2003 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 31 Oct. 2 [He] was drawing attention to concerns from growers that they are about to get ‘the rough end of the pineapple’ in a free-trade deal with Thailand.
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C1.
pineapple culture n.
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1855 P. Neill et al. Pract. Gardener's Compan. (rev. ed.) 350 The proper management of bottom-heat is a matter of some difficulty, and in this there have been more failures than in any other part of the pine-apple culture.
1991 Agribusiness Worldwide (Nexis) 13 8 Pineapple culture is well established in the area among small farmers.
pineapple garden n.
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1845 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 9 Aug. 66/1 The pine-apple gardens of sweet Pimlico.
1998 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 18 Dec. (Community Close-up section) 1 There's..an avocado tree, a pineapple garden and a 50-foot coconut palm.
pineapple juice n.
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1852 T. Ross tr. J. J. von Tschudi Trav. in Peru vi. 97 Ices, most of which are made of milk or pine-apple juice.
1904 Mrs. H. M. Young Home-made Cakes & Sweets 33 Add..2 tablespoonfuls pineapple juice.
1999 BBC Good Food July 88/3 I use freshly juiced fruit as a base for many of my smoothies, but cartons of apple, orange or pineapple juice work well.
pineapple plant n.
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1777 J. Cook Jrnl. Aug. (1967) III. 195 Some Millions Potatoes two Pine Aple plants were in a fair way of succeeding without any assistance before we left the place.
1882 Garden 22 July 73/2 Soot water is found to be exceedingly beneficial to Pine-apple plants.
2002 New Scientist 16 Nov. 89/4 Although the pineapple plant can grow from seed, it also spreads very efficiently by a variety of vegetative means.
C2. † pineapple kernel n. Obsolete the seed of a pine cone, esp. as an article of food; a pine nut.† pineapple nut n. Obsolete rare a pine cone; a pine nut.
pineapple bomb n. a bomb; a hand grenade, a light trench mortar.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade
trombe1562
grenade1591
grenado1611
granata1637
hand grenade1637
bag-granado1638
shell1647
glass-grenade1664
globe1672
flask1769
petrol bomb1903
rifle grenade1909
hairbrush1916
Mills1916
pineapple bomb1916
stick grenade1917
fragmentation bomb1918
pineapple1918
potato-masher grenade1925
spitball1925
Molotov cocktail1940
sticky bomb1940
stick-bomb1941
red devila1944
stun grenade1977
flash-bang1982
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > other bombs
iron bomb1759
suicide bomb1889
crump1914
radio bomb1914
marmite1915
pineapple bomb1916
pineapple1918
germ bomb1921
stick-bomb1928
bomblet1937
breadbasket1940
flash bomb1940
blockbuster1942
butterfly bomb1942
screamer1942
plastic bomb1944
napalm bomb1945
mail bomb1972
blast bomb1976
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Doing their Bit iii. 45 We saw ‘pineapple bombs’ or hand grenades being made—‘pineapple’ being a neat description of the shape and crisscross pattern of lines marking the segments into which the grenade bursts.
1952 P. G. Wodehouse Pigs have Wings i. 9 You watch that pig of yours like a hawk, Clarence, or before you know where you are, this fiend in human shape will be slipping pineapple bombs into her bran mash.
1972 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 19/1 The ‘pineapple’ bomb ploughs a furrow through the undergrowth with steel pellets.
1990 Correspondent Mag. 17 Sept. 27/2 Both sides armed themselves with a terrifying repertoire of weapons: pineapple bombs, bulletproof vests, M12 machine guns, night sights.
pineapple chunks n. tinned pineapple cut into small cubes; also figurative.
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pineapple chunks1902
1902 Grocer 16 Aug. 33 (advt.) Canned goods. Pineapple chunks.
1977 D. Beaty Excellency i. 15 A DC 6 was leaving, its propellers chopping a long shaft of light into pineapple chunks.
2000 N.Y. Press 29 Mar. ii. 21/4 Nuevo Latino food seems always pervaded by sharp, tuberous flavors, and pineapple chunks that materialize where they shouldn't.
pineapple cloth n. a thin translucent cloth made from pineapple fibre; = pina n. 1b.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > made from pineapple (leaf) fibres
pina1847
pineapple cloth1849
pina muslin1851
pina cloth1856
1849 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 23 Oct. in Amer. Notebks. (1972) v. 293 Mrs. S. J. gave a black woman six dollars for a dress of pine-apple cloth, sixteen yards, perhaps worth ten times as much.
1951 Man 51 146/2 The individual workmanship in making pineapple cloth.
2003 Gulf News (Nexis) 5 Jan. The long-leafed red variety of pineapple..is the source of the famous and flimsy pineapple cloth or pina.
pineapple fibre n. the fibre of the leaves of the pineapple.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre
palmite1555
coir1582
pita1648
kitul1681
silk-cotton1697
pita-thread1748
abaca1751
khus khus1798
gomuti1811
coco fibre1813
Manila hemp1814
pineapple fibre1834
moog1840
piassava1841
Para grass1850
raffia1850
African hair1851
ambari1851
diss1855
munj1855
monkey grass1858
crin vegetal1859
mung1866
lauhala1880
bass?1881
raphia bast1882
istle1883
raphia grass1885
settler's twine1898
tucum1901
Manila fibre1921
bassine1923
sotol1942
1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales II. x. 209 The first appearance of the pine-apple fibre would not cause one to suppose it to be so remarkably fine as it really is.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 266 The same pine-apple-fibre bag which he wore slung across his shoulder.
1988 Man 23 232 It is made from a type of croton, leaves of a small tree..and red cloth, the whole tied together with pineapple fibre.
pineapple flower n. any plant of the genus Eucomis (family Hyacinthaceae), so called from the tuft of leaflike bracts, resembling that of the pineapple, which crowns the inflorescence.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Africa
ghap1819
Streptocarpus1828
pineapple flower1884
African violet1895
saintpaulia1895
Cape hyacinth1924
bottle tree1931
desert rose1942
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Eucomis, Pine-apple-flower.
1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 126 Eucomis (Pine-apple Flower, King's Flower)... Half-hardy bulbous flowering plants. Evergreen. Nat. Cape of Good Hope.
1995 C. Brickell Garden Plants 159/1 [A] strong flowering stem with dense raceme of starry..flowers, topped by a rosette of small leaves (hence the common name, Pineapple Flower).
pineapple grenade n. = pineapple bomb n.
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1918 N.Y. Times 30 Sept. 9/1 In other windows were various instruments of warfare, including..a German pineapple hand grenade.]
1921 Chicago Tribune 20 Oct. 1/6 The bomb was an ordinary Mills ‘pineapple’ grenade.
1930 D. W. Strickland Connecticut Fights II. v. 89 The one most commonly used was the English ‘pineapple’ grenade, so-called because of its shape and corrugated sides.
1992 Economist 2 May 84/2 The newer weapons, like the AK-47s and the pineapple grenades, come from army stores in China.
pineapple jelly n. jelly flavoured with pineapple.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > jelly > [noun] > sweet and other jellies
blancmange1377
manger blanc1574
moonshine1608
viper-jelly1702
saloop1712
jelly1728
salep1736
bread jelly1750
hartshorn jelly1769
arrowroot1822
table jelly1830
pineapple jelly1841
fruit-jelly1846
jujube paste1858
sponge1859
stone cream1861
pavlova1911
tracklement1954
1841 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 723/1 They..served us..Pine-apple jelly.
1907 R. M. F. Berry Fruit Recipes xix. 245 Pineapple jelly (without gelatine).
1998 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 22 Nov. (Lifestyle section) 1 Using only his fist, he squirts a dollop of pineapple jelly into each square.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > pine-seeds
pine nuteOE
pines1327
pineapple kernela1398
pineapple seed?1440
pignon1526
neoza1832
pinyon1846
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > other edible seeds > pine-seeds
pine nuteOE
pines1327
pineapple kernela1398
pineapple seed?1440
pignon1526
pineapple1560
pinyon1577
pine kernel1598
neoza1832
piñon1834
pignoli1841
cembra nut1842
pinyon1846
cedar-nut1863
pignolia1891
Indian nut1922
pit1947
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 241 Whanne þe pyne apul curnell schal be vsed it nedeth to hete esiliche al þe pyne apul vpon coles.
1481 Petty Customs Acct. in H. S. Cobb Overseas Trade of London (1990) 184 [12 lbs.] pyneaple carnels.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 93v Pyne apple kirnels.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 17 The oyles which she extracted for the face, it is incredible to recount, of Storax and of Iesmine,..of Pine-apple kernels, [etc.].
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Syrup Add the Pine-Apple Kernel, Pistachees, and bruised Seeds.
pineapple lily n. a plant of the genus Eucomis; a pineapple flower.
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1962 Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gaz. 12 June 3/5 [The] most unusual exhibit in the potted plants division was the pineapple lily with two large blooms.
2004 Times 31 July (Weekend Review section) 33/1 Pineapple lily (Eucomis bicolor)... Spikes of pale green star-shaped flowers, edged in purple, emerge on dark spotted stems from a lovely rosette of wavy-edged fresh green leaves.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone
pine nuteOE
nutOE
pineapplea1398
cone1562
cone-nut1562
pineapple nut1568
clog1577
chat1697
fir-apple1712
pine cone1723
strobilus1753
strobile1777
fir-bob1854
fir-ball1878
dennebol1909
1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. Pref. The kernelles of the Pineaple nut.
c1625 T. Heywood tr. Ovid De Arte Amandi ii. 49 Pine apple nuts full ripe, eate such as these.
pineapple potato n. rare an aberrant variety of potato in which the tuber contains numerous prominent eyes; a cultivar with such tubers.
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1835 J. S. Henslow Princ. Bot. §64 In one peculiar variety of this tuber, termed the ‘pine-apple potato’..each [bud] is subtended by a swollen projection which represents the base of the leaf-stalk.
1997 Guardian 26 July (Weekend Suppl.) 31/5 The puca piña (red pineapple potato) is also known as lumchipamundana, which translates roughly as mother-in-law's nightmare.
pineapple rum n. rum flavoured with pineapple.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > rum > [noun] > drinks made with rum
blackstrap1724
pineapple rum1753
rum toddy1801
black stripe1862
1753 G. G. Beekman Let. 8 June in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 177 I Received your favours per Captains Carlile and Bayre by the former a Barrill of Pineapple Rum proves Exceeding Good, for which you advanced the Cash.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 276 A glass of reeking hot pine-apple rum and water, with a slice of lemon in it.
2002 Pennsylvania's Official Wine & Spirits Q. Spring–Summer 17/1 Cruzan's coconut rum and pineapple rum.
pineapple seed n. †(a) = pineapple kernel n. (obsolete rare); (b) a seed of the pineapple plant.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > pine-seeds
pine nuteOE
pines1327
pineapple kernela1398
pineapple seed?1440
pignon1526
neoza1832
pinyon1846
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > other edible seeds > pine-seeds
pine nuteOE
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pineapple kernela1398
pineapple seed?1440
pignon1526
pineapple1560
pinyon1577
pine kernel1598
neoza1832
piñon1834
pignoli1841
cembra nut1842
pinyon1846
cedar-nut1863
pignolia1891
Indian nut1922
pit1947
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 686 Pynappul seed [L. pini semen] is sow.
1930 New Phytologist 29 201 (caption) Pineapple seed... Front view.
1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Mar. c6/4 Pineapple Seeds... The modern commercial pineapple is seedless.
pineapple shawl n. a shawl made of pineapple cloth.
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1883 G. MacDonald Donal Grant I. 102 A waistcoat of pine-apple shawl stuff.
1899 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 14 June 5/1 Every belle in the Philippines owns a Pineapple shawl.
2001 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel 1 Feb. e4 (heading) ‘Pineapple’ shawl makes for a dramatic drape... Pina often is blended with silk to make the fabric lighter and shinier.
pineapple strawberry n. see sense 3.
pineapple tree n. †(a) a pine tree, esp. the stone pine, Pinus pinea (obsolete); †(b) the pineapple plant, Ananas comosus (obsolete); (c) New Zealand any of various shrubs of the genus Dracophyllum (family Epacridaceae) whose leathery curved leaves at the tips of the branches are reminiscent of the pineapple plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies
pine treeeOE
pineOE
pine-nut treec1330
pineapplec1390
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mountain pine1597
pine1597
mountain pine1601
frankincense1611
rosin flower?1611
black pine1683
Scotch pine1706
yellow pine1709
Jersey pine1743
loblolly pine1760
mugoa1768
Scots pine1774
Scotch fir1777
arrow plant1779
scrub pine1791
Georgia pine1796
old field pine1797
tamarack1805
grey pine1810
pond pine1810
New Jersey pine1818
loblolly1819
Corsican pine1824
celery-top pine1827
toatoa1831
heavy-wooded pine1836
nut pine1845
celery pine1851
celery-topped pine1851
sugar-pine1853
western white pine1857
Jeffrey1858
Korean pine1858
lodge-pole pine1859
jack pine1863
whitebark pine1864
twisted pine1866
Monterey pine1868
tanekaha1875
chir1882
slash-pine1882
celery-leaved pine1883
knee-pine1884
knobcone pine1884
matsu1884
meadow pine1884
Alaska pine1890
limber pine1901
bristlecone pine1908
o-matsu1916
insignis1920
radiata1953
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 240v The pynappil tree [L. Pinus] hatte boþe Pynus and picea.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 95v A Pyne Appyltre, pinus, pinum; fructus eius.
1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes iii. sig. E6 He had the bodye of a pineapple tree for a staffe in hys hande.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 153 Things which are green all Winter; As Juniper..Pine-Apple-trees, Eugh.
1833 W. Tolmie Physician & Fur Trader (1963) 139 A beautiful prairie richly adorned with convolvuli, groves of hibiscus, large pine apple trees & plantains [in Hawaii].
1946 Wellington Bot. Soc. 14 8 There are some popular names..which seem to have hitherto escaped print and are only known locally... Dracophyllum traversii, candelabra tree, mountain mop, pineapple tree.
pineapple weed n. originally U.S. a small aromatic mayweed, Matricaria discoidea, which has rayless conical greenish-yellow flower-heads and smells like pineapple when crushed, probably native to north-east Asia but now a widely introduced weed in North America, Europe, and elsewhere.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > matricaria
matricaria1754
camomile1859
matricary1886
pineapple weed1908
1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's New Man. Bot. 847 Pineapple-weed... Odor of the bruised plant suggesting pineapple.
2002 Backwoods Home Mag. July 73/3 Pineapple weed, which is also called false chamomile (Matricaria Matricarioides), is..most often seen poking its sunny head from between the sidewalk stones.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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