pimentos

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

   Synonyms:

   cherry pepper, pimiento, Spanish paprika

2. A tropical berry used to make allspice.

   Synonyms:

   allspice

3. The tree on which it grows.