Pimiento vs Pepper - What's the difference?
pimiento | pepper |
A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum , used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
(uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
A fruit of the capsicum: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
To add pepper to.
To strike with something made up of small particles.
To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
To add (something) at frequent intervals.
As nouns the difference between pimiento and pepper
is that pimiento is a red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice while pepper is a plant of the family Piperaceae.As a verb pepper is
to add pepper to.pimiento
English
(wikipedia pimiento)Alternative forms
* pimentoNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* cherry pepper * Spanish paprikapepper
English
Noun
- Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
Synonyms
* (fruit of the capsicum) ** (spicy) chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper ** (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepperDerived terms
* bell pepper * chili pepper * green pepper * hot pepper * pepper spray * red pepper * sweet pepper * tabasco pepper * white pepperVerb
(en verb)- After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
- He liked to pepper his conversation with long words.