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bird pepper

n.

1. A variety of pepper (Capsicum annum var. glabriusculum) that includes the wild forms native to the southern United States and Mexico south to Colombia.

2. The small pungent fruit of this plant.

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bird pepper

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tropical solanaceous plant, Capsicum frutescens, thought to be the ancestor of the sweet pepper and many hot peppers

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the narrow podlike hot-tasting fruit of this plant

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Noun

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bird pepper - 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 Capsicum baccatum, Capsicum frutescens baccatum genus Capsicum, Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, pepper - any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers