noun
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:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.