paprika

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A powdered seasoning made from sweet red peppers, ranging in flavor from mild to hot.
• noun A dark to deep or vivid reddish orange.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A condiment prepared from a cultivated form of Capsicum annuum by grinding the dried peppers after removal of the seeds. It is much less pungent than the ordinary rod pepper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (varieties of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
• noun countable A variety of the spice.
• noun countable A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.
• noun A bright reddish orange colour like that of the dried paprika.
• adjective Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
• noun a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos