Apple vs. Pineapple — What's the Difference?

An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus.

The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit and the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. The pineapple is indigenous to South America, where it has been cultivated for many centuries.

The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh.

A large juicy tropical fruit consisting of aromatic edible yellow flesh surrounded by a tough segmented skin and topped with a tuft of stiff leaves

The tree bearing apples, with hard pale timber that is used in carpentry and to smoke food.

The widely cultivated tropical American plant that bears the pineapple. It is low-growing, with a spiral of spiny sword-shaped leaves on a thick stem.

A cultivated deciduous tree (Malus domestica or M. pumila) in the rose family, native to Eurasia and having alternate simple leaves and white or pink flowers.

A hand grenade.

The firm, edible, usually rounded fruit of this tree.

A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.

Any of several other plants, especially those with fruits suggestive of the apple, such as the crabapple or custard apple.

The fruit of this plant.

The fruit of any of these plants.

(Slang) A hand grenade.

A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.

A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.

Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.

The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.

Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.

(uncountable) The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.

The ball in baseball.

(slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.

(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)

The Adam's apple.

A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).

(Christianity) The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.

A pinecone; the cone of the fir.

A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

A decorative carving of a pineapple fruit used as a symbol of hospitality.

The wood of the apple tree.

(slang) A hand grenade. From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.

Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.

A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.

A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; - so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

An assist.

A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics

(slang) A CB radio enthusiast.

Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

(ambitransitive) To make or become apple-like.

(obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits