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TABASCO PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tabasco plant mean? 

TABASCO PLANT (noun)
  The noun TABASCO PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauceplay

  Familiarity information: TABASCO PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TABASCO PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Capsicum frutescens; hot pepper; tabasco pepper; tabasco plant

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "tabasco plant"):

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

Holonyms ("tabasco plant" is a member of...):

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


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