ˈpīˌnapəl noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English pinappel pinecone, ornament representing a pinecone, from pin, pine pine + appel apple, fruit
1. : an ornament (as a finial on furniture) representing either a pinecone or a true pineapple
2.
a. : a plant ( Ananas comosus ) native to tropical So. America but now widely cultivated in the tropics that has rigid spiny-margined recurved leaves and a short stalk with a dense oblong head of small abortive flowers
b. : the fruit of the pineapple that consists of the succulent fleshy inflorescence and that ripens into a solid mass invested with the tough persistent floral bracts and crowned with a tuft of small leaves
3.
a. : a dynamite bomb
b. : hand grenade