Editing Pineapple (section)

=== Etymology ===
The first reference in English to the pineapple fruit was the 1568 translation from the French of [[André Thevet]]'s ''[[The New Found World, or Antarctike]]'' where he refers to a {{lang|tup|Hoyriri}}, a fruit cultivated and eaten by the [[Tupinambá people]], living near modern [[Rio de Janeiro]], and now believed to be a pineapple.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Grant |first1=Jason R. |last2=Zijlstra |first2=Gea |date=1998 |journal=Selbyana |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=91–121 |issn=0361-185X |jstor=41759978 |title=An Annotated Catalogue of the Generic Names of the Bromeliaceae}}</ref> Later in the same English translation, he describes the same fruit as a "Nana made in the manner of a Pine apple", where he used another [[Tupian languages|Tupi]] word {{lang|tup|nanas}}.<ref>Davidson, A. (2008). ''The Penguin Companion to Food''. Penguin Books.</ref> This usage was adopted by many European languages and led to the plant's scientific [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial]] {{lang|la|Ananas comosus}}, where {{lang|la|comosus}} 'tufted' refers to the stem of the plant. Purchas, writing in English in 1613, referred to the fruit as ''Ananas'', but the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''{{'s}} first record of the word ''pineapple'' itself by an English writer is by Mandeville in 1714.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.oed.com/oed2/00007927 |title=Oxford English Dictionary |access-date=12 December 2019 |archive-date=12 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212200326/https://www.oed.com/oed2/00007927 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:Pineapple and cross section.jpg|thumb|Pineapple fruit, whole and in longitudinal section]]