Allspice is a small dried berry from a tropical American tree. Cooks crush it, or grind it, and put it into food. It is not a jar of many spices mixed together. It is one fruit. People named it allspice because the taste seemed to carry several familiar spice notes at once — a little cinnamon, a little clove, a little nutmeg. You meet it in cakes, stews, pickles, and in Caribbean cooking such as jerk seasoning. It is an ordinary kitchen word. English speakers do not use it to mean “every spice,” and they do not use it for Chinese five-spice powder, even though the name can trick a learner into thinking that. In older English you may also see it called Jamaica pepper; that is the same berry, not a different plant.

多香果。不是「五香粉」：五香粉是八角、桂皮等混在一起的中式香料；allspice 是一種漿果。