How did the fruit pineapple get its' name? A pine is a tree and the pineapple does not taste like an apple...

Answer 1

The word apple is not only the name of the particular fruit but is sometimes also used as a generic term for 'fruit of' or 'seed of'. An example- in French, potatoes are known as pomme de terre. The direct translation is 'apple of the earth'. Similarly, I would assume the word pineapple denotes the fuit of the particular tree.

Answer 2

The name pineapple in English (or piña in Spanish) comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone.
The word "pineapple", first recorded in 1398, was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit, they called them "pineapples" (term first recorded in that sense in 1664) because it resembled what we now know as pine cones. The term "pine cone" was first recorded in 1695 to replace the original meaning of "pineapple."

Answer 3

The word "pineapple", recorded in 1398, was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European discovered this tropical fruit, they called them "pineapples" (recorded in 1664) because it resembled as pine cones. The term "pine cone" was recorded in 1695 to replace the original meaning of "pineapple"

In the binomial "ananas comosus", ananas comes the original (Peruvian) word for pineaple nanas, as recorded by André Thevenet in 1555 and comosus means "tufted" and refers to the stem of the fruit.

Answer 4

true good question. Well how come you can have one goose and two geese but you can have one moose and not have two meese. prehaps it is one of the mysteries of the universe and we are not meant to know lol :)

Answer 5

I was also thinking about that the other day...I have no idea