malaguetas

Noun

malagueta (plural malaguetas)

1. Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of the West African Aframomum melegueta; the plant itself.
   • In Ginney the fruit that is most rife and common... is named Maniguetta.1568, André Thevet, translated by Thomas Hacket, The New Found Worlde, or Antarctike, Wherein Is Contained Woderful and Strange Things, 26v

   Synonyms:

   grains of paradise

2. The seeds or seed capsules of a Caribbean variety of Capsicum frutescens; the plant itself, now extensively grown in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique.
   • Their seasoning is generally a berry of the Malaguetta, a variety of the Capsicum Gutescens.1824, Johann Baptist von Spix et al., translated by Hannibal Evans Lloyd, Travels in Brazil in the Years 1817-1820, Vol. II, iv, ii, 260