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TABASCO PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tabasco plant mean?
• TABASCO PLANT (noun)
The noun TABASCO PLANT 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: TABASCO PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Capsicum frutescens; hot pepper; tabasco pepper; tabasco plant
Hypernyms ("tabasco plant" is a kind of...):
capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)
Meronyms (parts of "tabasco plant"):
red pepper; tabasco (very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small)
Holonyms ("tabasco plant" is a member of...):
Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)
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