pineapple

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Instead of the typical metal base, we got the speical one where they used a watermelon as the base (a pineapple is another optoin) and watermelon juice as the water.

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  1. noun A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.
  2. noun The fruit of this plant.
  3. noun Slang A hand grenade.

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  • If he met anyone as he left the building they might glance at him but they'd focus on the sizable pineapple, which is just what happened as he politely held the door open for the arriving officers. —  The Vanished Man
  • STOCKHOLM (AP) - Police say a Japanese pop star dressed up as a pineapple has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden.
  • A Japanese pop star dressed up as a pineapple has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden. —  Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
  • Police say a Japanese pop star dressed up as a pineapple has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden. —  The War on Guns
  • STOCKHOLM -- Police say a Japanese pop star dressed up as a pineapple has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden.
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  1. Middle English pinappel, pine cone : pine, pine; see pine1 + appel, apple; see apple.

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  1. Early modern English also pyneapple, pyneable; from Middle English pinappel, pynappul, pynappylle, from Anglo-Saxon pīnæppel, from pīn, pine, + æppel, apple.
 

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