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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
allspice
noun
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▪ Add butter, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice and blend well.
▪ Add garlic, cumin, coriander, and allspice and saute lightly until spices become aromatic.
▪ Butter the bread and sprinkle on a grating of nutmeg or pinches of allspice.
▪ Juniper berries mix nicely with peppercorns, bay leaves, tarragon, allspice, and fennel.
▪ Season to taste with salt, pepper and allspice.
▪ Seasonings used in both types include allspice, anise, garlic, and peppers of different kinds.
▪ Stir in mustard, chives, and allspice.
▪ They are sometimes mixed with other spices, such as allspice or coriander seeds, for a table condiment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allspice

Allspice \All"spice`\, n. The berry of the pimento ( Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice ( Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice ( Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
allspice

spice made from the berry of the Jamaican pimento, 1620s, from all + spice (n.), "so called because supposed to combine the flavour of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves" [Weekley].

Wiktionary
allspice

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of (taxlink Pimenta dioica species noshow=1), thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. 2 (context countable English) An evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.

WordNet
allspice
  1. n. aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries [syn: allspice tree, pimento tree, Pimenta dioica]

  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

Wikipedia
Allspice

Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, Turkish Yenibahar, or newspice, is the dried unripe fruit ( berries, used as a spice) of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name 'allspice' was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who thought it combined the flavour of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Several unrelated fragrant shrubs are called "Carolina allspice" ( Calycanthus floridus), "Japanese allspice" ( Chimonanthus praecox), or "wild allspice" ( Lindera benzoin). "Allspice" is also sometimes used to refer to the herb costmary ( Tanacetum balsamita).

Usage examples of "allspice".

Bay leaf, crumbled Pn allspice Pn mace Combine all ingredients and mix well.

Sage, allspice, garlic, ground cardamom seed, and onion powder are all good in it.

Add half a can of tomatoes, salt, pepper, allspice, and minced parsley to season, and half a cupful of tomato catsup.

Season with salt and pepper, a pinch of powdered cloves, mace, allspice, and thyme, two bay-leaves, a small bunch of parsley, and two leeks.

Prepare the eel according to directions previously given, cook in equal parts of white wine and water, seasoning with mace, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, sweet herbs, allspice, and salt.

Boil together for fifteen minutes one cupful of vinegar, one cupful of water, a sliced onion, two bay-leaves, three allspice, and a slice of lemon.

Add a sliced onion, a carrot, a bunch of parsley, and salt, pepper, sweet herbs, and a pinch of allspice to season.

Add to the water in which it was boiled half as much vinegar and a red pepper pod, whole cloves, allspice, and mace to season.

Cut a large shad into pieces, put a layer in the bottom of an earthen crock, sprinkle with salt, and add a few whole cloves, allspice, peppers, and bay-leaves.

Wash and drain two cupfuls of scallops, put into a saucepan and cover with salted boiling water, adding a bit of bay-leaf, four whole allspice, and two cloves.

Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into a frying-pan, when hot slice in one large onion and brown it, add one-half can of tomatoes, season with one teaspoonful of pepper, one-half teaspoonful of allspice, some finely chopped parsley, and one-half cupful of tomato catsup.

For every six pounds of fish allow one-fourth cupful each of salt, black pepper, and stick cinnamon, one-eighth cupful of allspice and one teaspoonful of clove.

Cook together for ten minutes one cupful of vinegar, one tablespoonful of sugar, and six each of whole allspice, cloves, and peppercorns.

I put the bowl with mangoes, apples, vinegar, sugar, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, raisins, allspice, carrots and cloves into the fridge, to let it all sit, and soak and mingle and swell with misery.

I feel nauseous, and only a whiff of ginger and allspice keeps me on my feet.