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pimento

/pɪˈmɛntəʊ//pɪˈmɛntoʊ/

pimento noun: a red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.

pimento: a red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or...
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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.

pimento meaning in Tamil and Arabic

pimento in Tamil

இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும்

pimento in Arabic

red sweet pepper
فُلْفُل حُلُو fulful ḥulū

Synonyms of pimento

Forms of pimento

pluralpimentos
pluralpimentoes

Origin of pimento

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.

Words formed from pimento

Phrases with pimento

Questions about pimento

What does pimento mean?
Pimento means a red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
What is pimento in Tamil?
Pimento in Tamil is இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். See Pimento meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pimento?
Pimento is a noun.
How do you pronounce pimento?
Pimento is pronounced /pɪˈmɛntəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of pimento?
The plural of pimento is pimentos.

Words near pimento in the dictionary

  1. Pimental
  2. Pimentals
  3. pimentas
  4. Pimentel
  5. Pimentels
  6. pimento
  7. pimento cheese
  8. pimento cheeses
  9. pimento loaf
  10. pimento loaves
  11. pimentoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pimento (page history and authors); pimento (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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