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tabasco

/təˈbæskəʊ/

tabasco noun: a tabasco pepper. Also the alternative letter-case form of Tabasco.

Noun (1)

tabasco (usually uncountable, plural tabascos)

  1. (usually) A tabasco pepper.
    • Louisiana is a major producer of tabascos.

Proper noun capitalized: Tabasco

Tabasco

  1. A state of Mexico.
  2. A surname.

Noun (2) capitalized: Tabasco

Tabasco (uncountable)

  1. A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.

Also used as

tabasco is also the alternative letter-case form of Tabasco.

Forms of tabasco

pluraltabascos

Origin of tabasco

See Tabasco.

Of unclear origin. The first definition listed in the 1994 Diccionario enciclopédico de Tabasco was from the Nahuatl name of the area, tlapalco meaning "(place of) damp earth"; wetlands are still extensive in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Other opinions listed were Mayan word tab-uaxac-koh, meaning "(our) lord of eight lions"; others suggest it derives from a Nahuatl word: tla-uashka-ko meaning "place that has an owner", or tlapachtli. The tabasco pepper was popular in the Mexican state and is named for it; a hot sauce made from that pepper was eaten in the state since the 1650s, and a version was popularized in the United States and elsewhere by the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana, beginning in the 1870s.

Words formed from tabasco

Phrases with tabasco

Questions about tabasco

What does tabasco mean?
Tabasco means a tabasco pepper.
What part of speech is tabasco?
Tabasco can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tabasco?
Tabasco is pronounced /təˈbæskəʊ/.
What is the plural of tabasco?
The plural of tabasco is tabascos.

Words near tabasco in the dictionary

  1. Tabars
  2. Tabasaran
  3. Tabasarans
  4. tabascheer
  5. tabaschir
  6. tabasco
  7. tabasco pepper
  8. tabasco peppers
  9. Tabascoed
  10. tabascos
  11. tabasheer

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