(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Add the pineapple and fry on each side for 1 minute.
(2) A previously unknown cysteine proteinase, named ananain, has been isolated from crude commercial pineapple stem bromelain.
(3) Histamine, tyramine, noradrenaline, serotonin and other pressor amines occur in fruits and fermented foods such as bananas, pineapples, cheese and wine.
(4) 1 | Dale Denton … from Pineapple Express Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It’s almost a shame to smoke it’: James Franco, left, as dealer Saul Silver and Seth Rogen as Dale Denton in Pineapple Express, 2008.
(5) In a cupboard, tins of tomato soup, dried pasta, tea bags, tinned pineapple and stuffing mix.
(6) 2 Add all the remaining ingredients, cover and cook over a low heat for 30 minutes, until the pineapple is tender.
(7) The animals were treated 24 h postburn with two newly discovered enzyme fractions derived from the stem of the pineapple (Ananas comosus).
(8) After a short description of the uses of pineapple as folk medicine by the natives of the tropics, the more important new pharmaceutical applications of bromelain, reported between 1975 and 1978, are presented.
(9) They're served with tepache , an old- fashioned, lightly fermented but non-alcoholic pineapple juice drink.
(10) Hydrazinolysis of porcine thyroglobulin glycopeptides and of pineapple stem bromelain [EC 3.4.22.4] permitted the isolation of almost intact carbohydrate chains of these glycoproteins.
(11) The report was based on information gathered through interviews with the workers of a Natural Fruit pineapple processing factory and exposed violence against employees, forced overtime, the use of underage labour and the confiscation of passports of Burmese migrant workers.
(12) SHRINKING VIOLET RETURNS IN HIGHBROW DOCUSOAP UNLIKELY TO GARNER MUCH TABLOID ATTENTION Louie Spence's Showbusiness, Sky 1, 9pm – the star of Sky 1's Pineapple Dance Studios returned with his own series, debuting with 277,000 viewers, a 1.1% share of the audience.
(13) In places, as many as 47 A. simpsoni larvae were collected from one pineapple plant, and the total mean number of larvae per pineapple was 6.6, while the percentage of plants with larvae was as high as 93.6.
(14) They told me I was going to work in a pineapple factory,” recalls Kyaw, a broad-shouldered 21-year-old from rural Burma.
(15) The final execution of Ardiano Domingo — a Filipino who was hanged for killing a woman with scissors in a Kauai pineapple field — helped prompt Hawaii’s territorial lawmakers to abolish the death penalty in the state, said Williamson Chang, a University of Hawaii law school professor who teaches a course on the history of law in Hawaii.
(16) In response to rising paranoia around communism, the comic creators drew on the recent popularity of the Japanese viral sensation Piko Taro’s video Pen Pineapple Apple Pen , which has been viewed more than 16 million times.
(18) On the non-alcoholic side: pineapple juice, orange juice, lime and cranberry.
(19) Consider a shopper at an out-of-town retail park who wishes to buy some pineapple to satisfy one of her five a day.
(20) Among the items reduced are giant pineapples – chopped from £2 to £1.25 each – and a 400g can of Don Mario tomatoes cut by a third, to 69p.
Spiky
Definition:
(a.) Like a spike; spikelike.
(a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
Example Sentences:
(1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(2) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(3) He described his players as “half-hearted,” lacking spikiness in the duels and quality in general.
(4) Calcium oxalate dihydrate stones have a striated, spiky and non-homogeneous appearance on plain X-rays.
(5) Bula was spiky when asked why he had made the change.
(6) As the euchromatin space of affected nuclei is "sanded" by numerous core particles with concomitant dissolution of the chromatin network, spiky, finely granular, and eosinophilic inclusions without a limiting membrane become visible in hematoxylin and eosin-stained paraffin sections.
(7) A new model for clot contraction is proposed, based on the rigidity of the long spiky pseudopodia and on the motile properties of platelets.
(8) The challenge for Defour is to make his mark in the Premier League having also made the transition from attacking midfielder to spiky holding player.
(9) If the geometry of City’s short passing exuded class, key performers were tiring fast as the game became slightly spiky.
(10) Trimingham complained about repeated references to her as "bisexual" and "lesbian" and insults about her appearance - including comments that she wore doc martens and had spiky hair.
(11) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
(12) It started with a week's safari in the Masai Mara, where they saw zebras, wildebeest and a cheetah with her spiky-haired cub.
(13) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
(14) "I love that a country capable of extraordinary pomp and ceremony can still retain a spiky irreverence towards its establishment.
(15) There was a spikiness about Wilshere in Saturday's FA Cup tie.
(16) Camilla, meanwhile, went for a spiky number that looked a little like a napkin folded into a swan.
(17) A close-packed array of hexons forms a planar facet of the icosahedral capsid, with the tops presenting a spiky appearance that is consistent with electron micrographs of the adenovirus capsid.
(18) The manometer-recorded right atrial pressure pulse of tricuspid stenosis differed from the normal, with (1) elevation of right atrial pressure, (2) different morphologic features (tall, spiky A wave complete before C; small V wave with an interruption, the tricuspid opening snap notch at termination of the gradual Y descent; a diastolic plateau, the relatively flat diastolic segment of the right atrial pressure pulse following the tricuspid opening snap notch prior to the next A wave), and (3) the relative lack of right atrial pressure and right atrial pressure pulse response with normal respiration.
(19) Marks & Spencer’s chief has warned of a “spiky” runup to Christmas, as Black Friday puts shoppers in the mood for discounts after a slowdown in clothing sales last summer.
(20) ***** With her combination of spikiness and compassion, Dawn may well turn out to be an interesting addition to the mix of Mad Men.