TABASCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tabasco mean? 

• TABASCO (noun)
  The noun TABASCO has 3 senses:

1. a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche

2. very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers

3. very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small

  Familiarity information: TABASCO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TABASCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Holonyms ("Tabasco" is a part of...):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Tabasco; Tabasco sauce

Hypernyms ("Tabasco" is a kind of...):

hot sauce (a pungent peppery sauce)

Meronyms (substance of "Tabasco"):

red pepper; tabasco (very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

red pepper; tabasco

Hypernyms ("tabasco" is a kind of...):

hot pepper (any of various pungent capsicum fruits)

Holonyms ("tabasco" is a part of...):

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 ("tabasco" is a substance of...):

Tabasco; Tabasco sauce (very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers)