A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples); Also called: genus Ananas.
pineapple.

The type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which incudes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx.

Any tropical or subtropical plant of the pineapple family Bromeliaceae, usually with stiff leathery leaves and bright flower spikes.
Many tropical species are epiphytes on rainforest trees. The pineapple plant Ananas comosus is widely cultivated for its fleshy collective fruit, resembling a pine cone, developed from a flower spike. Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides, another bromeliad, grows in long strands from the branches of trees in the SE US and tropical America.

1. A coniferous tree; SYN. pine tree, true pine.
2. Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus.
Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, family Pinaceae. There are 70–100 species, of which about 35 are native to North America. These are generally divided into two groupings: the soft pines and the hard pines. The former have needles in bundles of five and stalked cones without prickles; for example, eastern white pine p. strobus. Hard pines usually have needles in bundles of two or three and prickly cones; for example, jack pine p. banksiana. The oldest living species is probably the bristlecone pine p. aristata, native to California, of which some specimens are said to be 4,600 years old.
A previously unknown pine was discovered at the bottom of a deep gorge 1994, 200 km outside Sydney, Australia. It is about 40 km in height and has been given the popular name Wollemi. Only 40 trees were found. Botanists believe it may date back to prehistoric times, and belongs to a new genus of the Araucariaceae family.

1. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics; SYN. pineapple plant, Ananas comosus.
2. Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated; SYN. ananas.
Plant Ananas comosus of the bromeliad family, native to South and Central America, but now cultivated in many other tropical areas, such as Hawaii and Queensland, Australia. The mauvish flowers are produced in the second year, and subsequently consolidate with their bracts into a fleshy fruit.
For export to world markets the fruits are cut unripe and lack the sweet juiciness typical of the canned pineapple (usually the smoother-skinned Cayenne variety), which is allowed to mature fully. SYN. pine apple