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Webster 1913 Edition


Pimento

Pi-men′to

,
Noun.
[Sp.
pimiento
,
pimienta
; cf. Pg.
pimenta
, F.
piment
; all fr. L.
pigmentum
a paint, pigment, the juice of plants; hence, something spicy and aromatic. See
Pigment
.]
1.
(Bot.)
Allspice; – applied both to the tree and its fruit. See
Allspice
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pimento

PIMEN'TO

,
Noun.
Jamaica pepper, popularly called allspice. The tree producing this spice is of the genus Myrtus, and grows spontaneously in Jamaica in great abundance.

Definition 2024


pimentò

pimentò

See also: pimento

Italian

Verb

pimentò

  1. third-person singular past historic of pimentare