pimenta dioica

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   aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries

   Synonymsallspiceallspice treepimento tree

   Broaderspice tree

   Part ofPimenta

   Partsallspice

Questions about pimenta dioica

What does pimenta dioica mean?

pimenta dioica means "aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries".

What is another word for pimenta dioica?

Close synonyms include allspice, allspice tree, pimento tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pimenta dioica a common word?

pimenta dioica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.