Definitions

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae — various peppers.

Etymologies

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New Latin, believed to from Latin capsa ("box"), after the fruit shape.

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Examples

  • But, as much as it seems at home elsewhere, the colorful, varied genus of fruit known as Capsicum began in South America.

    Hungry Magazine 2008

  • For inflammation of the eyes, with a relaxed state of the membranes covering the eyeballs and lining the lids, the diluted juice of the Capsicum is a sovereign remedy.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Cayenne - Cayenne pepper (also called Capsicum frutescens) is a stimulating herb made from the dried pods of chili peppers and is well known for its pungent taste and smell.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Most texts refer to nioras and ñoras only as members of the Capsicum annuum family; in other words, as domesticated peppers.

    Recipe for Seafood and Vegetable Stew with Rouille (Red Pepper Sauce) Laurie Constantino 2009

  • However, in Catalan Cuisine, Colman Andrews says pepper scholar Charles Perry thinks the nyora [ñora] pepper is the variety scientifically called Capsicum annuum grossum/provar.

    Recipe for Seafood and Vegetable Stew with Rouille (Red Pepper Sauce) Laurie Constantino 2009

  • However, in Catalan Cuisine, Colman Andrews says pepper scholar Charles Perry thinks the nyora [ñora] pepper is the variety scientifically called Capsicum annuum grossum/provar.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Laurie Constantino 2009

  • Most texts refer to nioras and ñoras only as members of the Capsicum annuum family; in other words, as domesticated peppers.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Laurie Constantino 2009

  • Ms. Coelho, who not only can wax poetic about the female epiphytic cycad in the Botanical Garden's New World Lowland Rainforest exhibit or the incendiary Capsicum chinense peppers in the Edible Garden area but who also spars gamely with chipmunks on her own property, in Putnam Valley couldn't have been more generous with her time or patient with my level of horticultural idiocy.

    Growing Tomatoes With a Pro 2010

  • Special mentions go to Kat from Book Thingo, who I now know in the flesh as well as via IM, and to the Capsicum Girls, who made me a gift of a yellow capsicum with a heart drawn on the stem to remember them by.

    Books, Awesome Things, Vegetables « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2010

  • Indeed i am anther Capsicum girl.. in fact i commented before.. ive just finished your book…. and without being a cliched or stereotypical teenage girl… OMG.

    Sydney Launch « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2010

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