ALLSPICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allspice mean? 

• ALLSPICE (noun)
  The noun ALLSPICE has 3 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ALLSPICE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLSPICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

allspice; allspice tree; Pimenta dioica; pimento tree

Hypernyms ("allspice" is a kind of...):

spice tree (tree bearing aromatic bark or berries)

Meronyms (parts of "allspice"):

allspice (ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves)

Holonyms ("allspice" is a member of...):

genus Pimenta; Pimenta (allspice tree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("allspice" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allspice"):

Calycanthus floridus; Carolina allspice; strawberry bush; strawberry shrub; sweet shrub (hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers)

California allspice; Calycanthus occidentalis; spicebush (straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers)

Holonyms ("allspice" is a member of...):

Calycanthus; genus Calycanthus (a magnoliid dicot genus of the family Calycanthaceae including: allspice)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("allspice" is a kind of...):

spice (any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food)

Holonyms ("allspice" is a part of...):

allspice; allspice tree; Pimenta dioica; pimento tree (aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries)