cherry pepper
- noun
- /ˈtʃɛri ˈpɛpər/
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- She added some cherry peppers to the salad, giving it a vibrant color and a spicy taste.
Examples
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We also have some mild jalapenos started in that bucket and some cherry red cherry Peppers coming out of there.
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French bread, pickled cherry Peppers, hot mustard and New York cheesecake.
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French bread, pickled cherry Peppers, hot mustard and New York cheesecake.
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To make the salsa, finely chop three cherry peppers and mix them with onions and tomatoes.
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The sandwich was topped with sliced cherry peppers for an extra kick of flavor.
Synonyms
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1.0
A plant that makes hollow fruits eaten as vegetables, some sweet and some hot
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2.0
A spicy red or green pepper used to add heat to food
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1.0
A small red or green pod that makes food hot
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5.5
A vegetable like a bell pepper or hot pepper used for cooking
A pepper plant that makes small round spicy peppers often used in pickles and salsa
A tropical plant that grows peppers used in cooking or as spice
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cherry' modifies 'pepper' to indicate a pepper that is small/round or cherry-like, so a learner who knows both words can infer the referent is a type of pepper shaped like a cherry. This follows regular noun–noun compounding patterns common cross-linguistically, making the expression immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Cherry pepper The noun cherry pepper comes from the pepper's small, round, bright red fruit that look like cherries, so people called the small pepper a cherry pepper. That's why the name now means 'a small, round, often spicy pepper'.