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pimiento: see pepper pepper, name for the fruits of several unrelated Old and New World plants used as spices or vegetables or in medicine. Old World (True) Peppers


Black pepper (Piper nigrum
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pimiento

 or pimento

Any of various mild peppers of the genus Capsicum that have distinctive flavour but lack pungency, including the European paprikas. A common flavouring in Hungarian dishes, paprika is made by grinding dried peppers. The term pimento sometimes refers to allspice because early Spanish explorers of the West Indies and Central America mistook the highly aromatic berries of the tropical allspice tree for a type of pepper and called it pimenta.


pimiento
a Spanish pepper, Capsicum annuum, with a red fruit used raw in salads, cooked as a vegetable, and as a stuffing for green olives


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