pimiento

1. 1.

   plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers

   Synonymssweet pepperbell pepperpimentopaprikasweet pepper plantCapsicum annuum grossum

   Broadercapsicum

   Part ofgenus Capsicum

   Partssweet pepper
2. 2.

   fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked

   Synonymspimento

   Broadersweet pepper

Other forms of pimiento

plural

pimientoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pimiento

What does pimiento mean?

pimiento means "plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pimiento?

pimiento has 3 syllables: pi-mien-to. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for pimiento?

Close synonyms include sweet pepper, bell pepper, pimento, paprika, sweet pepper plant. 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 pimiento a common word?

pimiento 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.