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

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