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sweet pepper

sweet pepper noun: the fruit of a nonspicy cultivar of pepper, Capsicum annuum, marketed in green-, red-, yellow- and orange-skinned varieties.

sweet pepper: the fruit of a nonspicy cultivar of pepper, Capsicum annuum, marketed in green-, red-, yellow- and...
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Noun

sweet pepper (countable and uncountable, plural sweet peppers)

  1. (UK) The fruit of a nonspicy cultivar of pepper, Capsicum annuum, marketed in green-, red-, yellow- and orange-skinned varieties.
    Synonyms:
    capsicum

Synonyms of sweet pepper

Forms of sweet pepper

pluralsweet peppers

Questions about sweet pepper

What does sweet pepper mean?
Sweet pepper means the fruit of a nonspicy cultivar of pepper, Capsicum annuum, marketed in green-, red-, yellow- and orange-skinned varieties.
What part of speech is sweet pepper?
Sweet pepper is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet pepper?
The plural of sweet pepper is sweet peppers.

Words near sweet pepper in the dictionary

  1. sweet orange
  2. sweet oranges
  3. sweet osmanthus
  4. sweet pea
  5. sweet peas
  6. sweet pepper
  7. sweet pepperbush
  8. sweet pepperbushes
  9. sweet peppers
  10. sweet plum
  11. sweet plums

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