capsicum

1. Any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers (synset 112921222)
   is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
   subtypes:

   • capsicum annuum conoides, cone pepper - plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental
   • capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper - plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
   • bell pepper, capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant - plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
   • capsicum annuum cerasiforme, cherry pepper - plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits
   • bird pepper, capsicum baccatum, capsicum frutescens baccatum - 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
   • capsicum frutescens, hot pepper, tabasco pepper, tabasco plant - plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
   belongs to: capsicum, genus capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
   has: pepper - sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
   substance holonym: capsaicin - colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno
   same as: capsicum pepper plant, pepper
2. Chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers (synset 112920908)
   is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
   member holonym:

   • capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, pepper - any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
   • capsicum annuum conoides, cone pepper - plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental
   • capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper - plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
   • bell pepper, capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant - plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
   • capsicum annuum cerasiforme, cherry pepper - plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits
   • bird pepper, capsicum baccatum, capsicum frutescens baccatum - 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
   • capsicum frutescens, hot pepper, tabasco pepper, tabasco plant - plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
   belongs to: family solanaceae, potato family, solanaceae - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra
   same as: genus capsicum

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