capsicum

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
noun chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers

Borrowed from New Latin capsicum, from Ancient Greek καψικός (kapsikós, “like a box”), from Latin capsa (“box”).

=pimiento=, m., capsicum, pepper (fruit of the capsicum). — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
[127] Capsicum frutescens (Spix and Martius, p. 259). — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
Immense plains are covered with wheat, with capsicum, and the Spanish bean (frijoles). — The Rifle Rangers, Mayne Reid

pepper, capsicum pepper plant

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