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hot pepper

noun

Definition of HOT PEPPER

:  any of various small and usually thin-walled capsicum fruits of marked pungency; also :  a plant (especially variants or cultivars of Capsicum annuum and C. frutescens) bearing hot peppers
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First Known Use of HOT PEPPER

1945

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