allspice

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	spice,
definition	:	any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food (noun.food)

part meronym	:	allspice, allspice tree, pimenta dioica, pimento tree,
definition	:	aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries (noun.plant)

2. deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bush, shrub,
definition	:	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	calycanthus floridus, carolina allspice, strawberry bush, strawberry shrub, sweet shrub,
definition	:	hardy shrub of southeastern United States having clove-scented wood and fragrant red-brown flowers (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	california allspice, calycanthus occidentalis, spicebush,
definition	:	straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	calycanthus, genus calycanthus,
definition	:	a magnoliid dicot genus of the family Calycanthaceae including: allspice (noun.plant)

3. aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	spice tree,
definition	:	tree bearing aromatic bark or berries (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	allspice,
definition	:	ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus pimenta, pimenta,
definition	:	allspice tree (noun.plant)