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Definitions: Allspice |
AllspiceNoun1. Aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries. 2. Deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States. 3. Ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "allspice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: AllspiceSynonyms: allspice tree (n), pimento tree (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flavour
Allspice has a complex aroma, which is where it gets its name allspice from. It is an aromatic spice that tastes like a combination of cinnamon and cloves, but hotter and more peppery.History
Allspice originated in Jamaica, and was probably first found by Spanish explorers in Jamaica near the beginning of the 16th century. It was slowly exported into Europe after that. It is still almost exclusively grown in Jamaica, although some other Central American countries do grow a little.Preparation/Form
The common form is as the dried fruit and it can be easily found in this form as well as ground. Grinding the whole spice oneself provides the strongest flavour and the longest shelf life. Fresh leaves are also used, and these are often used for smoking meats where allspice is a local crop.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Allspice."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Condiment | Salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Allspice |
| English words defined with "allspice": allspice tree ♦ California allspice, Calycanthus, Carolina allspice ♦ genus Calycanthus, genus Pimenta ♦ Jamaica pepper, Japan allspice, Japanese allspice ♦ Pimenta, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree ♦ Spicewood ♦ wild allspice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "allspice": bayrum tree. (references) |
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Economic History | Jamaica | Agriculture: Products--sugar, bananas, coffee, citrus fruits, allspice. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Allspice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Allspice" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "allspice": allspice tree ♦ California allspice ♦ Carolina allspice ♦ japan allspice ♦ japanese allspice ♦ wild allspice. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
agriculture allspice | 312 |
allspice company list | 106 |
allspice importer | 101 |
allspice seller | 36 |
allspice | 34 |
allspice buyer wholesale | 20 |
allspice exporter | 15 |
carolina allspice | 8 |
allspice berry | 5 |
allspice tree | 3 |
allspice recipe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "allspice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فلفل افرنجي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бахар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 多香果 (Pimento). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nové koření. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | allehaande (Jamaica pepper, pimenta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pimentboom (Jamaica pepper, pimenta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maustepippuri (Jamaica pepper, pimenta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toutes-épices, quatre-épices, quatre épice, piment type Jamaïque, piment des anglais, piment de la Jamaïque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Piment (Jamaica pepper, pimenta, pimento). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρωματοπιπέρι, ψευδάμωμον το φαρμακευτικόν (Jamaica pepper, pimenta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vegyesfûszer, jamaicai szegfûbors. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rempah-rempah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pimento inglese (Jamaica pepper, pimenta), pimento (Jamaica pepper, pimenta, pimento), pepe di giamaica, pepe della giamaica (Jamaica pepper, pimenta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | オー の法則 (all guarantee, all or nothing, all right, all square, all-in-one, all-occasion dress, all-season coat, all-season dress, all-season track, all-star cast, all-star game, all-wave, all-weather coat, all-weather track, alternative, alternative school, alternative space, aura, aural communication, O.K., oar, Ohm's law, oldie, oldies, omen, oral, oral approach, oral method, oral sex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | オールスパイス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pibbyr Injinagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allspiceay pimenta da jamaica. (various references) cuişoare englezeşti. (various references) гвоздичное дерево (clove, clove gillyflower, clove-gillyflower), гвоздика (carnation, clove, pink). (various references) pimen, najgvirc. (various references) pimienta de jamaica (pimento), malagueta (grain of paradise, grains of paradise, Guinea grains, malaguetta, malaguetta pepper). (various references) kryddpeppar (Jamaica pepper, pimenta, pimento). (various references) yenibahar (pimento). (various references) гвоздичне дерево, гвоздика (carnation, clove, pink), пімент (pimento), перець запашний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Pimenta dioica, Pimenta dioica Merrill, Pimenta officinalis. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "allspice": allspices. (additional references) | |
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"Allspice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Halspach. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: plaices, scalpel, special. | |
-2 letters: allies, apices, epical, espial, lapels, lilacs, lipase, places, plaice, plicae, plical, scilla, spicae, splice. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alecs, aspic, calls, capes, ceils, cella, celli, cells, claps, clasp, clips, epics, ileac, ileal, laces, laics, lapel, lapis, lapse, leaps, lilac, lisle, paces, pails, paise, pales, palls, peals, pical, picas, pilea, piles, pills. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: allspices, calliopes, callipees, callipers, specially. | |
+2 letters: especially, pillowcase. | |
+3 letters: aseptically, capillaries, collapsible, ellipticals, episcopally, escalloping, paclitaxels, peccadillos, pillowcases, plagioclase, skeptically, spancelling, spherically. | |
+4 letters: caterpillars, cupellations, despotically, displaceable, episodically, peccadilloes, plagioclases, plainclothes, seraphically, specifically, superhelical. | |
+5 letters: calligraphers, calligraphies, capercaillies, capillarities, ceruloplasmin, colleagueship, compellations, culpabilities, disciplinable, dyspeptically, epistemically, geophysically, multispectral, nucleoplasmic, penicillinase, pietistically, placabilities, politicalizes, polydactylies, psephological, semipolitical, speculatively, speleological, splenetically, superficially, valpolicellas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 73 70 69 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. ... .--. .. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01110011 01110000 01101001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l s p i c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0073 0070 0069 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578788582756971 |
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