Why is a pineapple called a pineapple?!
Answers: I was told by my first grade teacher told me that whoever discovered it said it looked like a pinecone and tasted/smelled like an apple. combine the two and BAM! I don't know if that's a true story but I believed it.
Pineapple (Eng.); Pi?a (Sp.); Nana (Fr.); Ananas (Germ.)
When Columbus landed in Guadeloupe in 1493, he found pineapples, which probably had originally come from Brazil. As Father de Acosta observed as early as 1589, the Spanish thought this new fruit resembled a pine cone; hence, the Spanish name of pinya, and the English name of "pineapple" (the fruit was often just called a "pine" when it was first introduced into Britain). The word nanais a portion of the Brazilian Guarani word that means "perfumed" and was retained in both French and German.
The Brazilian name is Ananas Comosus, ananas. fruit, apple
It is a bromeliad.
The Spanish name is ananas or in English pina
Field workers put the name together pina apple.
Don't you just hate smarties who know all the answers (lorelei c) - if I had to be this precise in answering a question, I would just give up!