noun
plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits
• Syn: ↑Capsicum annuum cerasiforme
• Hypernyms: ↑capsicum, ↑pepper, ↑capsicum pepper plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Capsicum, ↑Capsicum
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noun1. : a hot pepper (Capsicum frutescens cerasiforme) with small rounded extremely pungent fruits
2. : the fruit of the cherry pepper
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a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
[1825-35]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.