cayenne pepper love

Definitions

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

  • noun An orange-red to dark red condiment consisting of the ground ripe fruits of any of several pungent varieties of capsicum.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See pepper.

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

  • noun Any of several very hot chilli peppers.
  • noun A powder condiment or spice formed from the dried chilli pepper varieties above.

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

  • noun plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
  • noun a long and often twisted hot red pepper
  • noun ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration (by folk etymology from Cayenne) of kian, chian, from Tupí quiínia, hot pepper.]

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