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all·spice  (ôlsps)

n. In both senses also called pimento.

1. A tropical American evergreen tree (Pimenta dioica) having opposite, simple leaves and small white flowers clustered in cymes.

2. The dried, nearly ripe berries of this plant used as a spice, especially in baking.

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allspice

Noun

a spice used in cooking, which comes from the berries of a tropical American tree

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	allspice - aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries Pimenta dioica, pimento tree, allspice tree allspice - ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves genus Pimenta, Pimenta - allspice tree spice tree - tree bearing aromatic bark or berries
	2.	allspice - deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States Calycanthus, genus Calycanthus - a magnoliid dicot genus of the family Calycanthaceae including: allspice Calycanthus floridus, Carolina allspice, strawberry shrub, sweet shrub, strawberry bush - hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis, spicebush - straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	3.	allspice - ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves spice - any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food allspice, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree, allspice tree - aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries

Translations

allspice [ˈɔːlspaɪs] n → pimienta inglesa or de Jamaica

allspice [ˈɔːlspaɪs] n → poivre m de la Jamaïque

allspice [ˈɔːlspaɪs] n → Piment m or nt

allspice [ˈɔːlspaɪs] n → pepe m della Giamaica