BIRD PEPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bird pepper mean? 

• BIRD PEPPER (noun)
  The noun BIRD PEPPER has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRD PEPPER (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bird pepper; Capsicum baccatum; Capsicum frutescens baccatum

Hypernyms ("bird pepper" is a kind of...):

capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)

Holonyms ("bird pepper" is a member of...):

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