Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A garden pepper (Capsicum annuum) having a mild, sweet, red fruit.
  • noun The fruit of this plant, used in cooking, in salads, and as a stuffing for green olives.

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

  • noun The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.; also the fruit itself. Also called pimento.

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  • noun A red sweet pepper used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.

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

  • noun plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
  • noun fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish; see pimento.]

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From Spanish pimentón

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  • "The principal salad peppers" is a ridiculously ethnocentric (gastrocentric?) definition.

    October 10, 2009