The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PINEAPPLE
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More clues leading to the result PINEAPPLE
- Long pub drink containing very soft fruit
- Long drink containing very soft fruit
- Long to have a Granny Smith? Or another fruit?
- Long drink filled with very soft fruit
- Peel ’n’ a pip has the makings of a fruit
- Fruit in pie pen pal's written about
- Long drink containing peel from plump fruit
- Long drink contains very soft fruit
- Exploding Nepal pipe grenade
- Long drink – about 2p . . . .
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What does PINEAPPLE mean?
PINEAPPLE noun- A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
- The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
- The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
- An Australian fifty dollar note.
- A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
- A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
- A pinecone.
- A decorative carving of a pineapple fruit used as a symbol of hospitality.
- A hand grenade.
- A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.