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hot pepper

hot pepper noun: any of various small peppers of highly notable pungency or heat.

hot pepper: any of various small peppers of highly notable pungency or heat
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Noun

hot pepper (countable and uncountable, plural hot peppers)

  1. Any of various small peppers of highly notable pungency or heat.
  2. Any of the plants that bear such fruit, especially the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens and their numerous subspecies, varieties, or cultivars.

Forms of hot pepper

pluralhot peppers

Questions about hot pepper

What does hot pepper mean?
Hot pepper means any of various small peppers of highly notable pungency or heat.
What part of speech is hot pepper?
Hot pepper is a noun.
What is the plural of hot pepper?
The plural of hot pepper is hot peppers.

Words near hot pepper in the dictionary

  1. hot patched
  2. hot patches
  3. hot patching
  4. hot pencil
  5. hot pencils
  6. hot pepper
  7. hot peppers
  8. hot pie
  9. hot pies
  10. hot pink
  11. hot pinks

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