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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See allspice.
  2. n. Variant of pimiento.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Allspice, the berry of Pimenta officinalis (Eugenia Pimenta), a tree, native of the West Indies, but cultivated almost exclusively in Jamaica, whence called Jamaica pepper. The unripe berries, which are of about the size of a pea, are dried in the sun. The shell incloses two seeds, which are roundish and dark-brown, and have a weak aromatic taste and smell, thought to resemble a mixture of those of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, whence the name allspice. Pimento is a warm, aromatic stimulant, used chiefly as an adjuvant to tonics and purgatives. Both the fruit and the leaves yield an essential oil closely resembling oil of cloves and often substituted for it. The name pimento is sometimes used to include P. acris.
  2. n. The tree yielding this spice, a beautiful much-branching evergreen, 30 feet in height.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A red sweet pepper used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
  2. n. A tropical berry used to make allspice.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See allspice.
  2. n. same as pimiento.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
  2. n. plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish pimiento (Wiktionary)
  2. Spanish pimiento, red or green pepper, pepper plant, from pimienta, black pepper, pepper fruit, from Late Latin pigmenta, pl. of pigmentum, vegetable juice, condiment, pigment, from Latin, pigment, from pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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