CHILI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chili mean? 

• CHILI (noun)
  The noun CHILI has 2 senses:

1. ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

2. very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

  Familiarity information: CHILI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chili; chili con carne

Hypernyms ("chili" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Domain region:

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chile; chili; chili pepper; chilli; chilly

Hypernyms ("chili" is a kind of...):

hot pepper (any of various pungent capsicum fruits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chili"):

jalapeno; jalapeno pepper (hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico)

cayenne; cayenne pepper (a long and often twisted hot red pepper)

Holonyms ("chili" is a part of...):

Capsicum annuum longum; cayenne; cayenne pepper; chili pepper; chilli pepper; jalapeno; long pepper (plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red)

Holonyms ("chili" is a substance of...):

chili powder (powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano)

 Context examples 

A chili pepper extract with analgesic properties.

(Capsaicin, NCI Thesaurus)

One was a placebo, which had no effect, and the other contained capsaicin, the ingredient that makes chili peppers hot and causes inflammation, as seen with sunburns.

(Study identifies gene that makes gentle touch feel painful after injury, National Institutes of Health)

Peppers are native to Mexico, but are grown in many developing countries – both as the bell pepper vegetable and chili pepper to make spices.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)