PINEAPPLE

noun Date: 1588 1. a tropical monocotyledonous plant ( Ananas comosus of the family Bromeliaceae, the ~ family) that has rigid spiny-margined recurved leaves and a short stalk with a dense oblong head of small abortive flowers, the large edible multiple fruit of the ~ that consists of the sweet succulent fleshy inflorescence, a hand grenade