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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A variety of sweet pepper widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
  2. n. The large, crisp, bell-shaped red, yellow, or green fruit of this plant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The fruit of Capsicum grossum, much used for pickling and as a vegetable; Guinea pepper.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Capsicum annuum, an edible spicy-sweet fruit, indigenous to the New World.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Bot.) A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (Capsicum annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
  2. n. large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties

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  • “She walked until she ran into Mariam, who shot her a cheerless glance and went back to slicing the stem off a bell pepper and trimming strips of fat from meat.”

    A Thousand Splendid Suns

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  1. capsicum pepper plant
  1. capsicum
  1. pepper
  1. sweet pepper

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  1. sweet pepper
  1. pepper
  1. green pepper
  1. bell pepper

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  1. capsicum

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