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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 all·spice /ˈɔlˌspaɪs/
 甜胡椒,由甜胡椒製成的香味料

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 all·spice /ˈɔlˌspaɪs/ 名詞
 披門他,玉桂子,牙買加胡椒

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 All·spice n. The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 allspice
      n 1: aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries
           [syn: allspice tree, pimento tree, Pimenta dioica]
      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