CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Capsicum frutescens mean? 

• CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS (noun)
  The noun CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Capsicum frutescens; hot pepper; tabasco pepper; tabasco plant

Hypernyms ("Capsicum frutescens" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "Capsicum frutescens"):

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

Holonyms ("Capsicum frutescens" is a member of...):

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