What counts as a pipeline? From  Tanenbaum's Structured Computer Organization:


  Figure 2-4(a) illustrates a pipeline with five units, also called
  stages.
  
  If one pipeline is good, then surely two pipelines are better. One
  possible design for a dual pipeline CPU, based on Fig. 2-4, is
  shown in Fig. 2-5. Here a single instruction fetch unit fetches pairs
  of instructions together and puts each one into its own pipeline,
  complete with its own ALU for parallel operation. 
  
  A different approach is used on high-end CPUs. The basic idea is to
  have just a single pipeline but give it multiple functional units, as
  shown in Fig. 2-6.  The definition of ‘‘superscalar’’ has evolved
  somewhat over time. It is now used to describe processors that issue
  multiple instructions—often four or six—in a single clock cycle. Of
  course, a superscalar CPU must have multiple functional units to hand
  all these instructions to. Since superscalar processors generally have
  one pipeline, they tend to look like Fig. 2-6.


I wonder what counts as a pipeline?

In Figure 2-4(a), a pipeline consists of 5 stages. 

In figure 2-5, two pipelines share the same instruction fetch unit, but why isn't it a single pipeline?

In figure 2-6, a pipeline has multiple functional units, but why isn't it multiple pipelines?

Thanks.
In 2-4(a) each stage processes one instruction at a time using one unit for every stage. In 2-5 the instruction fetch unit remains the same but fetches two instructions that are then processed parallelly, each with its own unit. So we have two pipelines of cause. They are logically and physically seperated. 
But as far as I understand, the main difference between 2-5 and 2-6 is that in 2-6 the CPU decides dynamically what the order of execution of the instructions will be (out-of-order-execution) so that it can eliminate dependencies and hazards. The multipipeline approach executes parallel but in-order. But a superscalar CPU will as well need all stages twice. I personally think it would be wrong to say a superscalar has one single pipeline.