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pimento

Any of several evergreen trees belonging to the myrtle family, found in tropical parts of the New World. The dried berries of the species P. dioica are used as a spice (see allspice). Also, a sweet variety of capsicum pepper (more correctly spelled pimiento). (Pimento genus Pimenta, family Myrtaceae.)



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