bird pepper
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bird pepper
n.
See chiltepin.
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bird pepper
n
1. (Plants) a tropical solanaceous plant, Capsicum frutescens, thought to be the ancestor of the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
2. (Plants) the narrow podlike hot-tasting fruit of this plant
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bird′ pep`per
n.
a variety of pepper, Capsicum anuum glabriusculum, having small, elongated berries.
[1780–90]
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| Noun | 1. | bird pepper - plant 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 genus Capsicum, Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, pepper - any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers |
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