GENUS CAPSICUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Capsicum mean? 

• GENUS CAPSICUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS CAPSICUM has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CAPSICUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Capsicum; genus Capsicum

Hypernyms ("genus Capsicum" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Capsicum"):

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

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 ("genus Capsicum" is a member of...):

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (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)