CAPSICUM PEPPER PLANT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does capsicum pepper plant mean? 

• CAPSICUM PEPPER PLANT (noun)
  The noun CAPSICUM PEPPER PLANT has 1 sense:

1. any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

  Familiarity information: CAPSICUM PEPPER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPSICUM PEPPER PLANT (noun)

Meaning:

Any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper

Hypernyms ("capsicum pepper plant" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Meronyms (parts of "capsicum pepper plant"):

pepper (sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum)

Meronyms (substance of "capsicum pepper plant"):

capsaicin (colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capsicum pepper plant"):

Capsicum annuum conoides; cone pepper (plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental)

Capsicum annuum longum; cayenne; cayenne pepper; chili pepper; chilli pepper; jalapeno; long pepper (plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red)

bell pepper; Capsicum annuum grossum; paprika; pimento; pimiento; sweet pepper; sweet pepper plant (plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers)

Capsicum annuum cerasiforme; cherry pepper (plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits)

bird pepper; Capsicum baccatum; Capsicum frutescens baccatum (plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers)

Capsicum frutescens; hot pepper; tabasco pepper; tabasco plant (plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce)

Holonyms ("capsicum pepper plant" is a member of...):

Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)