Pimenta

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    pimento

    "The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island[…]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Portuguese.

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genus pimenta

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"The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Pimenta.

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