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A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum annuum having a very pungent green or red fruit.

A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum annuum having small highly pungent red or green fruit.

The fruit of this plant.

A chili pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum which originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo and is used in cooking.

Alternative spelling of jalapeño

Plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red

Hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico