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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum chinense having irregularly shaped, yellow to red fruit that is among the hottest of all peppers.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the shape of its fruit.]
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