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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pimento
    n 1: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped
         fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: sweet pepper,
         bell pepper, pimento, pimiento, paprika, sweet
         pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum]
    2: fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked [syn:
       pimento, pimiento]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pimento \Pi*men"to\, n. [Sp. pimiento, pimienta; cf. Pg.
   pimenta, F. piment; all fr. L. pigmentum a paint, pigment,
   the juice of plants; hence, something spicy and aromatic. See
   Pigment.]
   1. (Bot.) Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its
      fruit. See Allspice.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. same as pimiento.
      [PJC]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pimiento \Pi*mien"to\, n. [Sp.]
   The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a
   vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.; also the fruit itself. Also
   called pimento.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
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