pimento

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɪˈmɛntəʊ/    美 /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
    — In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
  2. A tropical berry used to make allspice.
  3. The tree on which it grows.

词形变化

pimentos plural pimentoes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pimento cheese pimento loaf

词源

Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.
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