pimento tree

Questions about pimento tree

What does pimento tree mean?

pimento tree means "aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries".

What is another word for pimento tree?

Close synonyms include allspice, allspice tree, Pimenta dioica. 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 pimento tree a common word?

pimento tree 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.