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HOT PEPPER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various pungent capsicum fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hot pepper" is a kind of...):

pepper (sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hot pepper"):

chile; chili; chili pepper; chilli; chilly (very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency)

red pepper; tabasco (very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce

Synonyms:

Capsicum frutescens; hot pepper; tabasco pepper; tabasco plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hot pepper" is a kind of...):

capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)

Meronyms (parts of "hot pepper"):

red pepper; tabasco (very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small)

Holonyms ("hot pepper" is a member of...):

Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)

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