malagueta

Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of the West African Aframomum melegueta; the plant itself.

In Ginney the fruit that is most rife and common... is named Maniguetta.

The people of the Gold Coast, when suffering from headache, rub over the forehead a paste of Malaguetta pepper.

The seeds or seed capsules of a Caribbean variety of Capsicum frutescens; the plant itself, now extensively grown in Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique.

Their seasoning is generally a berry of the Malaguetta, a variety of the Capsicum Gutescens.