pimiento
nounA garden pepper (Capsicum annuum) having a mild, sweet, red fruit.
The fruit of this plant, used in cooking, in salads, and as a stuffing for green olives.
The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.; also the fruit itself. Also called pimento.
A red sweet pepper used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers.
