capsicum

n. type of tropical plants that bears peppers; hot red pepper fruit

Capsicum is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae) native to the New World, where it was cultivated for thousands of years by the people of tropical America, and now cultivated worldwide. Some of the members of Capsicum are used as spices, vegetables, and medicines. The fruit of Capsicum plants have a variety of names depending on place and type. They are commonly called chili pepper, red or green pepper, or just pepper in Britain and the US; the large mild form is called bell pepper in the US, capsicum in Australian English and Indian English, and paprika in some other countries (although paprika can also refer to the powdered spice made from various capsicum fruit).
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Noun
1. any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
(synonym) pepper, capsicum pepper plant
(hypernym) shrub, bush
(hyponym) cone pepper, Capsicum annuum conoides
(member-holonym) genus Capsicum
(substance-meronym) capsaicin
(part-meronym) pepper

(n.)
A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.
  

N
paprika| pepper