ALLSPICE

Allspice

Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, pimento, English pepper or newspice, is a spice that is the dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, a mid-canopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who thought it combined the flavour of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

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allspice

Noun

  1. A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of , thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
  2. An evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.


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