Paprika vs. Pepper

Paprikanoun

(uncountable) Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).

Paprikanoun

(countable) A variety of the spice.

Paprikanoun

A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.

Paprikanoun

A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.

Paprikaadjective

Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.

Paprikanoun

The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.

Paprikanoun

plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers

Paprikanoun

a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos

Paprikanoun

a powdered spice with a deep orange-red colour and a mildly pungent flavour, made from the dried and ground fruits of certain varieties of pepper.

Paprikanoun

a deep orange-red colour.

Paprika

Paprika (American English more commonly (listen), British English more commonly (listen)) is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers. It is traditionally made from Capsicum annuum varietals in the Longum group, which also includes chili peppers, but the peppers used for paprika tend to be milder and have thinner flesh.

Peppernoun

A plant of the family Piperaceae.

Peppernoun

(uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

Peppernoun

A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.Surely "pepper" covers all varieties as in most of this definition, while "bell pepper" and "capsicum" only refer to the large roundish mild varieties specifically

Peppernoun

(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

Peppernoun

(cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

Pepperverb

(transitive) To add pepper to.

Pepperverb

(transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.

Pepperverb

(transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

Pepperverb

(transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.

Peppernoun

A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.

Peppernoun

The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

Peppernoun

Any plant of the genus Capsicum (of the Solanaceae family, which are unrelated to Piper), and its fruit; red pepper; chili pepper; as, the bell pepper and the jalapeno pepper (both Capsicum annuum) and the habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense); . These contain varying levels of the substance capsaicin (C18H27O3N), which gives the peppers their hot taste. The habanero is about 25-50 times hotter than the jalapeno according to a scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912. See also Capsicum and http://www.chili-pepper-plants.com/.

Pepperverb

To sprinkle or season with pepper.

Pepperverb

Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds; as, to pepper him with buckshot.

Pepperverb

To fire numerous shots (at).

Peppernoun

climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam

Peppernoun

any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

Peppernoun

pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground

Peppernoun

sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

Pepperverb

add pepper to;

Pepperverb

attack and bombard with or as if with missiles;