genus capsicum
English Thesaurus
1. chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | asterid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, pepper, |
| definition | : | any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | capsicum annuum conoides, cone pepper, |
| definition | : | plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper, |
| definition | : | plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bell pepper, capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant, |
| definition | : | plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | capsicum annuum cerasiforme, cherry pepper, |
| definition | : | plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bird pepper, capsicum baccatum, capsicum frutescens baccatum, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | capsicum frutescens, hot pepper, tabasco pepper, tabasco plant, |
| definition | : | plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | family solanaceae, potato family, solanaceae, |
| definition | : | large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra (noun.plant) |
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