Pineapple vs. Melon — What's the Difference?

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.

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit.

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 large round fruit of a plant of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds

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.

The Old World plant which yields the melon.

A hand grenade.

A waxy mass in the head of dolphins and other toothed whales, thought to focus acoustic signals.

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 various vines of the family Cucurbitaceae, especially Cucumis melo or Citrullus lanatus, widely cultivated for their edible fruit.

The fruit of this plant.

The fruit of any of these plants, having a hard rind and juicy flesh.

(Slang) A hand grenade.

A fatty structure in the forehead of cetaceans, especially the toothed whales, thought to be used in the production of high-frequency sounds.

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

Melons Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.

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

(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.

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

Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including honeydew, cantaloupes, and horned melon.

(slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.

Genus Citrullus, watermelons and others

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

Genus Benincasa, a winter melon

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

Genus Momordica, a bitter melon

A pinecone; the cone of the fir.

(uncountable) Fruit of such plants.

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

(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.

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

Breasts.

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

The head.

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.

A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.

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

(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

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

(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.

The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.

Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh

Any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers