NOUN | plant | hot pepper, tabasco pepper, tabasco plant, Capsicum frutescens | plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers |
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food | hot pepper | any of various pungent capsicum fruits |
Meaning | plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce. | |
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Synonyms | tabasco pepper, tabasco plant, Capsicum frutescens | |
Member of | genus Capsicum, Capsicum | chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits |
Parts | tabasco, red pepper | Very hot red peppers |
Broader | capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant | Any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers |
Meaning | Any of various pungent capsicum fruits. | |
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Narrower | chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile | Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency |
tabasco, red pepper | Very hot red peppers | |
Broader | pepper | Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum |
Spanish | pimiento del piquillo | |
Catalan | pebrot picant |
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