Pineapple and coconut

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How did the names "pineapple" and "coconut" come about? Wilfred Funk in his book Word Origins and his romantic stories responds:

“Our tropical fruits, pineapple, arrived very late in England. . . . The name pineapple simply means "pine of the apple" because it looked a lot like a pine cone. The coconut . It has a small smile in it. If you look at the three holes below, you will see that they look like a human face. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word coco means a grimace or a grimacing face.So a coconut is really a funny-face nut.

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