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pimento

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/pɪˈmɛntəʊ/
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/pɪˈmɛntəʊ/ · /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/ (US)

Definition of pimento

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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.”
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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. A tropical berry used to make allspice.
  3. The tree on which it grows.

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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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