bell pepper
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- noun
- /bɛl ˈpɛpər/
- US
:
pimiento
- An appetizer of yellow bell peppers and sun-dried tomatoes, for example, is a "must-try" treat in some Middle Eastern restaurants.
It saves us so much time putting the bell pepper in here, chopping it up.
- It saves us so much time putting the bell pepper in here, chopping it up.
- However, we have a green bell pepper that's starting to blush to orange.
- It would be stuffed mushrooms with bell Peppers and onions in that bit like quiche salad.
- It's made with whole rice and quinoa and bell Peppers and stuff like this, so people can see it more like real food.
- And so one time, I don't know why they asked me if I had any allergies and I said, yeah, dairy and bell Peppers.
Examples
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I watched her chop bell peppers, onions, and celery.
Fiction book (1990) -
They love red bell peppers, too.
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How much water does a bell pepper need?
Academic text (2006) -
Now our bell Peppers have been amazing this year.
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The other day, I knocked a bell pepper off the shelf, and it fell on the floor.
Blog text (28) -
The sweet bell peppers were all very small, due to the prolonged and extreme heat.
Blog text (16) -
I took advantage of red bell peppers being a third of the winter price and made stuffed peppers.
Blog text (2) -
Whole wheat tortillas with hummus, turkey, red bell pepper, Swiss cheese, and spinach.
Blog text (16) -
The holy trinity is the Cajun and Louisiana Creole variant of mirepoix: onions, bell peppers, and celery in roughly equal quantities.
Blog text (14) -
I love adding chopped bell pepper to my salads for extra flavor and color.
Synonyms
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A plant that makes hollow fruits eaten as vegetables, some sweet and some hot
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A small sweet red pepper often used stuffed in olives or added to cheese
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A large mild fruit often eaten as a vegetable with thick walls and a bell shape
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A pepper plant with large sweet fruits used in salads and to make the spice
A large sweet pepper with thick walls and a bell shape used in cooking
A round sweet pepper with thick walls often used for stuffing or roasting
How Spicy
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- Specialized
- US
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- US
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combines 'bell' (bell-shaped) with 'pepper' (the capsicum vegetable) to denote a pepper that has a bell-like shape, so the meaning is directly compositional. This shape+noun naming pattern is common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bell pepper gets its name from the vegetable's shape — it looks like a round, hanging bell. People called it a pepper because it is a kind of pepper, so the name helps you picture this sweet, bell-shaped vegetable.