bird pepper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
    Capsicum frutescens baccatum; Capsicum baccatum.

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Bird" pep`per
Definitions
  1. A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.

Webster 1913