a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
source: WordNet 3.0
large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
