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Definition of Pimenta
1. Noun. Allspice tree.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Myrtaceae, Myrtaceae, Myrtle Family
Member holonyms: Bay-rum Tree, Bayberry, Jamaica Bayberry, Pimenta Acris, Wild Cinnamon, Allspice, Allspice Tree, Pimenta Dioica, Pimento Tree
Definition of Pimenta
1. n. Same as Pimento.
Medical Definition of Pimenta
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pimenta
Literary usage of Pimenta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"Perspiration (much less marked than from the infusion of Jaborandi), followed by
a feeling of great relief and increased vigor,2. pimenta. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Indian Observations gathered out of the Letters of Nicolas pimenta, Visiter of
the Jesuites in India, and of many others of that Societie, written from ..."
3. Pharmacographia by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1874)
"a beautiful evergreen tree, growing to about Botanical Origin — pimenta ...
(Myrtus pimenta :•" i»-rt in height, with a trunk 2 feet in circumference, ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"VII. lian Observations gathered out of the Letters of Nicolas pimenta, Visiter
of the ... Icholas pimenta, the Indian Visiter in his N. pimentas Letter to ..."
5. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"pimenta (pimenta, Allspice) Official in all editions excepting New York. ...
Allspice, pimenta officinalis, is the berry of a tree native to Jamaica and ..."
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