Pimento
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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.
Example
More examples"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."
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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