Why is there no pine or apple in pineapple?!
Why is there no pine or apple in pineapple?
Answers:
The name pineapple in English (or pi?a 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 know as pine cones. The term "pine cone" was first recorded in 1695 to replace the original meaning of "pineapple".[1]
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.
Are you smoking crack?
For the same reason that lemons aren't called yellows but an orange is called an orange. Is this a test?
Because.
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LMAO..
why isn't there crack in crackers????
I'll tell you why
because i have debated this myself
clearly the Pear should bear the name pineapple because it is very much similar to an apple
pineapple can be called pear because it's in a world of its own
apparently whoever named it only had the word apple down or only knew apples
then they found pineapples
they said
this object taste like fruit (sweet n tasty) but it came from a different tree which they assumed was like a pine tree
so
the person who named it
only knew 1 fruit-the apple
they only knew of an apple tree, and a pine tree so they called every anti apple tree,...a pine tree
and apple was the name for fruit
a pine tree like apple
apparently an uneducated person came up with a word that just stuck