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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Who Named The Pineapple


Pineapple

The name pineapple’s name comes from its close relationship with the pine cone. The pineapple was first recorded in 1398 when the name was originally was used to name the reproductive organs of a coniferous tree know as pine cones. It came to its name the pineapple when European explorers found this tropical fruit and named them pineapples, they have been called this since 1664. And since 1694 they replaced the word pineapple for the pine cone.

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5 comments:

Grace said...

I think that it is a good paragraph, but it is sort of confusing. So mabe you should word it out differently. Where did the European explorers find the pineapple?

-Grace

Mc.Fly said...

Sorry all it said on the artical was what they named and names of it in other countries:(

mclovein said...

it was a really good paragraph but i think you should have put more to it

queston-what are some things pineapples can be put on

whatIknow said...

that was good now i know how they named them. Would the pineapple have a diffrent name if the pine cone had a diffrent name.


Drew

Mc.Fly said...

Dno Drew maybe