bird pepper

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See Capsicum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A tropical American plant, Capsicum baccatum.
• noun The very hot, red fruit of this plant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers