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piemento

piemento is the archaic spelling of pimento.

Meaning of pimento

Noun

pimento (plural pimentos or pimentoes)

  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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14
  2. A tropical berry used to make allspice.
    Synonyms:
    allspice
  3. The tree on which it grows.

Questions about piemento

What is piemento the archaic spelling of?
Piemento is the archaic spelling of pimento.

Words near piemento in the dictionary

  1. piemaker
  2. piemakers
  3. piemaking
  4. pieman
  5. piemen
  6. piemento
  7. Piemontese
  8. piemontite
  9. piemontites
  10. piems
  11. piend

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