Pineapple Clear Vocabulary
English ['pa?n?pl] American ['pa?n?pl]
n. Pineapple; pineapple;
Cut some pineapple for your sister.
Cut some pineapple for your sister.
Tom likes to eat pineapple very much.
Tom likes to eat pineapple very much.
Origin of the name pineapple:
Pineapple is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay in South America. In 1493, Columbus discovered this fruit on Guadalupe Island during his voyage in the Caribbean.
As the expedition progressed, pineapples became a luxury fruit in Europe. At that time, King Charles II of England also took an official photo because he received a gift - a pineapple. Europeans had trouble naming it. At that time, apple not only referred to "apple", but also referred to fruits similar to apples.
Nowadays, many English words for fruits contain the ingredient apple, such as crab apple (hawthorn), love apple (tomato), custard apple (custard apple), etc.
Europeans at that time thought that the outside of the pineapple was as rough and segmented as a pine cone, and the inside was as crisp and sweet as an apple, so they combined the two and called it pineapple.