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Pimento

//pɪˈmɛntəʊ// noun

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Noun

1
A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
"In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol."
2
fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked wordnet
3
A tropical berry used to make allspice.
4
plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers wordnet
5
The tree on which it grows.

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.

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