Tabasco

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. A trademark used for a very spicy sauce made from a strong-flavored red pepper.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The trade-name given to a pungent sauce and to a catsup made from a variety of Capsicum annuum (see pepper) and said to be prepared by extracting the pulp of the ripe fruit and so treating it as to retain its flavor, strength, aroma, and color.
2. n. A name which has been applied by seedsmen to various forms of Capsicum annuum. The plant yielding the fruit from which the original tabasco sauce was made is described as 2½ feet high, with an erect, spreading habit; leaves often 4 inches long and 2½ inches wide, dark green, usually pubescent along the veins; fruit extremely pungent, oblong cylindrical, about an inch long, obtuse or acute, usually compressed at the base by the calyx, deep red when ripe, the unripe ones often drying to an orange color, frequently borne in twos. See sauce. Rep. Missouri Bot. Garden, 1898.

Wiktionary

1. n. A state of Mexico.
2. n. A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche
2. n. very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small
3. n. very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers