Chilli vs. Pepper

Chillinoun

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Peppernoun

A plant of the family Piperaceae.

Chillinoun

See Chili.

Peppernoun

(uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

Chillinoun

very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

Peppernoun

A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.Surely "pepper" covers all varieties as in most of this definition, while "bell pepper" and "capsicum" only refer to the large roundish mild varieties specifically

Chillinoun

a small hot-tasting pod of a variety of capsicum, used in sauces, relishes, and spice powders. There are various forms with pods of differing size, colour, and strength of flavour.

Peppernoun

(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

‘Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".’;

Chillinoun

short for chilli powder

Peppernoun

(cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

Chillinoun

short for chilli con carne

Pepperverb

(transitive) To add pepper to.

Pepperverb

(transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.

Pepperverb

(transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

‘After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.’;

Pepperverb

(transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.

‘He liked to pepper his conversation with long words.’;

Peppernoun

A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.

Peppernoun

The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

Peppernoun

Any plant of the genus Capsicum (of the Solanaceae family, which are unrelated to Piper), and its fruit; red pepper; chili pepper; as, the bell pepper and the jalapeno pepper (both Capsicum annuum) and the habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense); . These contain varying levels of the substance capsaicin (C18H27O3N), which gives the peppers their hot taste. The habanero is about 25-50 times hotter than the jalapeno according to a scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912. See also Capsicum and http://www.chili-pepper-plants.com/.

Pepperverb

To sprinkle or season with pepper.

Pepperverb

Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds; as, to pepper him with buckshot.

Pepperverb

To fire numerous shots (at).

Peppernoun

climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam

Peppernoun

any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

Peppernoun

pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground

Peppernoun

sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

Pepperverb

add pepper to;

‘pepper the soup’;

Pepperverb

attack and bombard with or as if with missiles;

‘pelt the speaker with questions’;