Dictionary entry

Pimento

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.] (Bot.) Allspice; — applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.