a large tropical fruit with thick rough skin and stiff leaves on top, that is sweet and yellow inside with a lot of juice 菠萝;凤梨 fresh pineapple 新鲜菠萝 a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块 pineapple juice 菠萝汁
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- canned
- tinned
- fresh
- …
- chunks
- rings
- juice
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a pine cone): from the noun pine + apple. The word was applied to the fruit in the mid 17th cent., because of its resemblance to a pine cone.
Idioms
the rough end of the pineapple
- (Australian English, informal)
a situation in which somebody is treated badly or unfairly 受到不良(或不公平)对待的处境