HyperDic: bird_pepper

English > 1 sense of the expression bird pepper:
NOUNplantbird pepper, Capsicum frutescens baccatum, Capsicum baccatumplant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits
English > bird pepper: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningplant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers.
SynonymsCapsicum frutescens baccatum, Capsicum baccatum
Member ofgenus Capsicum, Capsicumchiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits
Broadercapsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plantAny of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
CatalanCapsicum baccatum

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