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allspice

  • noun

A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.

Other meanings

  1. Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.

A kind of

  • spice tree

Related words

  • Carolina allspice

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “allspice” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.