Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A garden pepper (Capsicum annuum) having a mild, sweet, red fruit.
- noun The fruit of this plant, used in cooking, in salads, and as a stuffing for green olives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.; also the fruit itself. Also called
pimento .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
red sweet pepper used to makerelish ,stuffed intoolives , or used asspice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- noun fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Among the other foods used as a garnish are certain vegetables that give a contrast in color, such as pimiento, green peppers, radishes, and olives.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
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PIerna de Cerdo Adobado, sweet potatoes, ejotes con pimiento morrón, and it goes on from there.
bilby commented on the word pimiento
"The principal salad peppers" is a ridiculously ethnocentric (gastrocentric?) definition.
October 10, 2009