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noun plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
noun ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum
noun a long and often twisted hot red pepper
originFrom French Cayenne, a form of Guyana. But said by the French to be from French cayenne (“naval barracks, shore kitchen”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0