- sweet pepper
- noun Date: 1814 any of various large mild thick-walled capsicum fruits; also a pepper plant (Capsicum annuum) bearing sweet peppers — compare bell pepper
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sweet pepper — noun count a green, red, or yellow vegetable that does not have a strong flavor. Sweet peppers are often simply called peppers: BELL PEPPER … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
sweet pepper — sweet peppers N COUNT A sweet pepper is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable. Syn: capsicum … English dictionary
sweet pepper — ► NOUN ▪ a large green, yellow, orange, or red variety of capsicum with a mild or sweet flavour … English terms dictionary
sweet pepper — n a green, red, or yellow vegetable that is hollow with many seeds … Dictionary of contemporary English
sweet pepper — n. 1. any of various large, mild red peppers: see CAPSICUM (sense 1) 2. a plant on which these grow … English World dictionary
sweet pepper — noun 1. plant bearing large mild thick walled usually bell shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers • Syn: ↑bell pepper, ↑pimento, ↑pimiento, ↑paprika, ↑sweet pepper plant, ↑Capsicum annuum grossum • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sweet pepper — vienametė paprika statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Bulvinių šeimos daržovinis, dekoratyvinis, prieskoninis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Capsicum annuum). Iš jo gaminami maisto priedai (dažikliai, kvėpikliai). atitikmenys: lot. Capsicum… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
sweet pepper — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sweet pepper : singular sweet pepper plural sweet peppers a green, red, or yellow vegetable that does not have a strong flavour. Sweet peppers are often simply called peppers … English dictionary
Sweet pepper bush — Pepper Pep per, n. [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L. piper, fr. Gr. ?, ?, akin to Skr. pippala, pippali.] 1. A well known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the {Piper nigrum}. [1913 Webster] Note: Common, or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sweet pepper — sweet′ pep′per n. 1) pln a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, having a mild flavored, bell shaped or somewhat oblong fruit 2) pln the fruit itself, used as a vegetable Also called bell pepper … From formal English to slang
sweet pepper plant — noun plant bearing large mild thick walled usually bell shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers • Syn: ↑sweet pepper, ↑bell pepper, ↑pimento, ↑pimiento, ↑paprika, ↑Capsicum annuum grossum • Hypernyms: ↑capsicum … Useful english dictionary
