allspice

English

branch with fruits, whence the spice

whole allspice (spice)

Etymology

all + spice, as it was thought to combine the flavours of various other spices.

Pronunciation

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Noun

allspice (countable and uncountable, plural allspices)

(uncountable) A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
(countable) Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.

Synonyms

(spice): pimento
(tree): Jamaica pepper

Derived terms

Translations

spice

Arabic: بَهَار حُلْو m (bahār ḥulw), فِلْفِل إِفْرَنْجِيّ m (filfil ʔifranjiyy)
Basque: jamaikako piperbeltz
Bulgarian: бахар (bg) (bahar)
Catalan: pebre de Jamaica m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多香果 (zh) (duōxiāngguǒ), 眾香子／众香子 (zh) (zhòngxiāngzi), 牙買加胡椒／牙买加胡椒 (zh) (Yámǎijiā hújiāo)
Czech: nové koření (cs) n
Danish: allehånde c
Dutch: lontai m (Suriname)
Esperanto: pimento (eo)
Faroese: alhanda n
Finnish: maustepippuri (fi)
French: quatre-épices (fr), tout-épice m, piment de la jamaïque m
Galician: pementa de Xamaica (gl) f
Georgian: მიხაკი (mixaḳi), ბაჰარი (bahari)
German: Piment (de) m or n, Neugewürz n, Nelkenpfeffer m, Jamaikapfeffer m, Modegewürz n (archaic)
Greek: μπαχάρι (el) n (bachári)
Hungarian: szegfűbors (hu)
Icelandic: allrahanda n, negulpipar m
Italian: pepe della Giamaica m
Jamaican Creole: pimento
Japanese: オールスパイス (ōrusupaisu)
Korean: 올스파이스나무 (olseupaiseu-namu)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: најгвирц m (najgvirc), најквирц m (najkvirc)
Malay: rempah tiga rasa
Manx: pibbyr Injinagh m
Norman: toute-êpice f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: allehånde (no) m

Nynorsk: allehande m
Polish: ziele angielskie (pl) n
Portuguese: pimenta-da-jamaica f
Romanian: ienibahar (ro) n
Russian: гвозди́чный пе́рец m (gvozdíčnyj pérec), яма́йский пе́рец m (jamájskij pérec), души́стый пе́рец m (dušístyj pérec)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на̀јгвирц m, на̀јквирц m, пѝме̄нта f, пѝмент m

Latin: nàjgvirc (sh) m, nàjkvirc (sh) m, pìmēnta (sh) f, pìmеnt m
Slovak: nové korenie n
Slovene: píment m
Spanish: pimienta de Jamaica f
Swedish: kryddpeppar (sv) c
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: baharat (tr), yenibahar (tr)
Ukrainian: духмя́ний пе́рець m (duxmjányj pérecʹ)
Yiddish: ענגלישער פֿעפֿער m (englisher fefer)

tree

Catalan: pebrer de Jamaica m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多香果 (zh) (duōxiāngguǒ), 眾香子／众香子 (zh) (zhòngxiāngzi), 牙買加胡椒／牙买加胡椒 (zh) (Yámǎijiā hújiāo)
Finnish: maustepippuri (fi)
Galician: pementeira de Xamaica (gl) f
Greek: αρωματοπιπέρι (aromatopipéri)
Jamaican Creole: pimento tree
Japanese: オールスパイス (ōrusupaisu)
Polish: korzennik lekarski m
Portuguese: pimenteira da Jamaica f
Russian: гвозди́чное де́рево n (gvozdíčnoje dérevo), гвозди́чный пе́рец m (gvozdíčnyj pérec), пиме́нта лека́рственная f (piménta lekárstvennaja)
Slovene: pímentovec m
Swedish: kryddpepparträd n

References

allspice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:allspice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Pimenta dioica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pimenta dioica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

Capellis, Pacellis, speciall, specilla

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