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BIRD PEPPER
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
bird pepper; Capsicum baccatum; Capsicum frutescens baccatum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bird pepper" is a kind of...):
capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)
Holonyms ("bird 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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