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noun any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
noun chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
originBorrowed from New Latin capsicum, from Ancient Greek καψικός (kapsikós, “like a box”), from Latin capsa (“box”).
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