Pepper vs. Capsicum

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;

Capsicumnoun

Any of several tropical American plants, of the genus Capsicum, principally the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens, that are cultivated as edible peppers.

Capsicumnoun

The spicy fruit of the above plants, the bell peppers.

Capsicumnoun

A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.

Capsicumnoun

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); .

Capsicumnoun

any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

Capsicum

Capsicum () is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to the Americas, cultivated worldwide for their chili pepper or bell pepper fruit.