| hot pepper 
  
 
 1. plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers;
 grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
 • Syn:
 tabasco pepper, tabasco plant, Capsicum frutescens
 • Hypernyms:
 capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant
 • Member Holonyms:
 genus Capsicum, Capsicum
 • Part Meronyms:
 tabasco, red pepper
 2. any of various pungent capsicum fruits
 • Hypernyms:
 pepper
 • Hyponyms:
 chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile,
 tabasco, red pepper
 
 
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