Pine apple

In French, the word pomme means "apple," the sweet fruit we're all familiar with. But, combined with other words, it takes on other meanings. Perhaps the most well known of these is pomme de terre (earth apple) which means "potato." Less well known is the pomme (or sometimes pommeau) de douche (shower apple), what we call a "shower head."

A pine apple, or cone, still attached to a fallen branch.

Then there's the pomme de pin (pine apple), what English speakers now call a "pine cone." The word cône exists in French and is probably more scientifically correct (I'm guessing here), but I've always heard these called pommes de pin. What we call the tropical fruit "pineapple" is known as ananas in French. I read that the tropical "pineapple" was originally called that in English because it resembles, you guessed it, a pine apple.