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red pepper

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red pepper: see pepper pepper, name for the fruits of several unrelated Old and New World plants used as spices or vegetables or in medicine. Old World (True) Peppers


Black pepper (Piper nigrum
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red pepper
1. any of several varieties of the pepper plant Capsicum frutescens, cultivated for their hot pungent red podlike fruits
2. the fruit of any of these plants
3. the ripe red fruit of the sweet pepper


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On hearing himself called Polendina, Mastro Geppetto turned the color of a red pepper and, facing the carpenter, said to him angrily:
I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
He did not lift his eyes from his plate, round which red pepper, lemons, brown bread and butter, etc.
 
 
 
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