In today's post we will explore how some fruits came by their names. The apple's name is kind of underwhelming in that it comes from Old English aeppel meaning all fruits. Moving on to pineapple when explorers discovered the fruit in South America they were surprised by the resemblance to a pine cone and introduced it in Spain as pina de Indes, meaning pine of the Indians. We'll finish up with orange, it's roots go way back in time and was originally called naranga, meaning orange tree. The name for the fruit predates the name for the color orange.
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