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tabasco pepper

tabasco pepper

4.8
A small very hot red chili that people use to make hot sauce
  • noun
  • /təˈbæskoʊ ˈpɛpər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : pimiento tabasco
  • Yes, some of the peppers we use are Sport peppers or Tabasco peppers.

Then we have over here, this is the this is the Tabasco pepper.

Examples

  • We grow tabasco pepper plants in our garden for making homemade hot sauce.

  • The chef added tabasco pepper to the sauce to give it an extra kick.

  • In Louisiana, tabasco pepper is a common ingredient in many traditional dishes.

Synonyms

tabasco plant
vstabasco pepper
  • Specialized
6.8

A plant that grows red hot peppers used for hot sauce

is the specific cultivated variety used in sauces rather than the general plant term
Capsicum frutescens
vstabasco pepper
  • Specialized
8.0

A tropical pepper plant that makes small very hot red peppers for hot sauces

is a narrower cultivated variety within that tropical species

Antonyms

sweet pepper plant
  • UK
2.3

A plant that grows large, mild fruits like bell peppers for salads

How Hot

habanero
4 4.9
tabasco pepper
  • Specialized
4.8
cayenne
8 4.1
jalapeno
16 4.0
bell pepper
  • US
21 1.6

Surface Forms

tabasco pepper singular
tabasco peppers plural

Morphology

tabasco + pepper

The meaning is directly compositional: 'tabasco' (a type of hot chili) modifies 'pepper', yielding 'a pepper of the Tabasco variety'. This modifier+noun pattern is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common naming strategy, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Tabasco pepper is named after the place Tabasco in Mexico, where small red peppers were grown and mashed to make a strong sauce. That's why the name now means a very hot red pepper people use to add 'heat' to food or to make 'hot' sauce.