pimenta officinalis

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   tropical American tree having small white flowers and aromatic berries

   Synonymsallspice tree

   Broaderspice tree

Questions about pimenta officinalis

What does pimenta officinalis mean?

pimenta officinalis means "tropical American tree having small white flowers and aromatic berries".

What is another word for pimenta officinalis?

Close synonyms include allspice 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 officinalis a common word?

pimenta officinalis 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.