pimento
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- noun
- /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/
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planta de pimiento
- Baby food jars work well, as do pimento, caper, and artichoke heart jars.
- pimento-stuffed olives
- Pimento sweet peppers
- cheese and pimentos
Examples
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They stick a pimento stuffed olive.
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California Wonder, sweet pimento pepper, cayenne, long slim pepper, and last but not least least the Big Jim pepper.
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Well, it looks like a pimento.
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It's a glass bowl and we have pimento de la Vera inside.
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Your choice of peppers may have been limited to bell, pimento, or banana.
Academic text (2003) -
Shouldn't all the pimentos be facing up?
Fiction book (2001) -
If that thing for you is buying an extra jar of pimentos because you can't imagine life without them, then buy an extra jar next time you are shopping and put them in the pantry.
Blog text (20) -
Aaron's parents never eat anything but chicken breasts and fish, grilled with disgusting goat cheese, olives, and pimentos.
Fiction book (1991) -
You can add diced pimento to your salad for extra flavor.
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The recipe calls for chopped pimento to be mixed into the cream cheese.
Synonyms
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A plant that makes hollow fruits eaten as vegetables, some sweet and some hot
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A large sweet vegetable shaped like a bell and eaten raw or cooked
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A large mild fruit often eaten as a vegetable with thick walls and a bell shape
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A pepper plant with large sweet fruits used in salads and to make the spice
A large sweet pepper with thick walls and a bell shape used in cooking
A plant that grows large, mild fruits like bell peppers for salads
Compounds
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Etymology
Pimento comes from Spanish pimiento and Portuguese pimento, which mean 'pepper', and it was used for the plant that makes the large, mild red fruits; that's why pimento now means the bell-shaped, sweet red pepper used in salads and cooking.