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# pineapple

«pineapple» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large tropical fruit with a rough, spiky brown skin…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pineapple, pineapples; pineapple, uncountable as food)

### meaning for a pupil

A pineapple is a large tropical fruit with a rough, spiky brown skin, sweet juicy yellow flesh and a crown of stiff green leaves on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography, pineapples grow on low plants in hot countries (not on trees and not on pines); each fruit is made of many small fruits joined together. In everyday life, people eat pineapple fresh, in juice, in tins and on pizza.

### examples

- We cut the pineapple into chunks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#x1)
- Pineapple juice is sweet and sharp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#x2)
- Some people like pineapple on pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#x3)
- Pineapples grow on small plants, not trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#x4)
- Twist off the leafy top of the pineapple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#x5)
- A pineapple has a rough, spiky skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/#x6)

### note

Countable for whole fruits ("two pineapples"), uncountable for pieces ("some pineapple"). It is not a kind of apple and has nothing to do with pine trees; it got the name because it looks like a pine cone.

### In the corpora

- [A pineapple is a hundred or more tiny flowers grown together, and a strawberry wears its seeds on the outside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/4/)
- [A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pineapple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pineapple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.