As nouns the difference between piment and pimenta
is that piment is wine flavoured with spices or honey while pimenta is pimento.
pimenta
English
Noun
(
en noun)
pimento
* 1814 , John Lunan, Hortus jamaicensis (page 67)
- The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island
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