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PIMENTA [1 record]

Record 1 2016-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

A genus of tropical American aromatic trees (family Myrtaceae) having large coriaceous pinnately veined leaves, small cymose flowers, and 1 to 6 pendulous ovules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
DEF

Arbre de l'Amérique tropicale, très odoriférant, à grandes feuilles opposées coriaces, à nombreuses fleurs disposées en cymes à l'aisselle des feuilles supérieures. (Les fruits, bacciformes, sont employés comme condiment sous les noms de «quatre-épices, piment âcre, toute-épice, poivre de la jamaïque». Famille des myrtacées.

Spanish

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