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cayennes

cayennes is the plural of cayenne.

Meaning of cayenne

Noun

cayenne (countable and uncountable, plural cayennes)

  1. (figuratively) Spice or verve.
    • We speak ill of our neighbours, not from ill-nature, but idleness; satire is only the cayenne of conversation:...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 316
  2. A strong red-orange colour, like the cayenne pepper.

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Questions about cayennes

What is cayennes the plural of?
Cayennes is the plural of cayenne.

Words near cayennes in the dictionary

  1. cayenne peppers
  2. Cayenne porterweed
  3. Cayenne snakeweed
  4. Cayenne vervain
  5. cayenned
  6. cayennes
  7. Cayer
  8. Cayers
  9. cayes
  10. cayeute
  11. cayeutes

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