noun
pepper
A hollow vegetable pod that tastes sweet or hot.
She slices a sweet pepper into strips for the salad.
Etymology
The spice name pepper was applied to capsicum fruits because some produced a similarly pungent taste. The name later also covered mild, sweet varieties.
More examples
- These hot peppers give the soup a spicy kick.
- I remove the seeds before stuffing each pepper with rice.
- We grow red and yellow peppers in our garden.
Forms
pepper · peppers
Similar words
- bell pepper
- Specifically a large, mild pepper with a sweet flavor.
- chili pepper
- Specifically a pepper with heat, ranging from mild to fiery.