pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | 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 |
sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum | |
any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | |
climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam | |