chili pepper
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈtʃɪli ˈpɛpər/
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chile
- She garnished the tacos with fresh chili peppers for extra flavor.
I have some Red Hot Chili Peppers, not the band, the pepper.
- I have some Red Hot Chili Peppers, not the band, the pepper.
- So yeah, right here you have the potatoes, which we call it tunta and a sauce of yellow chili pepper.
- So the societal pressure to overcome the initial pain kind of breaks the seal and you start eating the Chili Peppers.
- Mix that together, more flaky salt, mild chili pepper like Aleppo or Gochugaru, a drizzle of olive oil, black pepper.
- The Southwest American Indians who love Chili Peppers always peel and D seed their chilies before they either eat them or grind them into chili powder.
Examples
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Farmers around the Jornada grow mainly chili peppers, cotton, and pecans.
Academic text (2004) -
Uh, throw in a few chili peppers, huh?
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The boys are each holding up a pointed red chili pepper.
Fiction book (1994) -
Spice it up with some chili pepper.
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- The chili peppers give it a real kick.
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He put chili pepper in instead of sugar.
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You can add garlic, chili pepper and squeeze lime on top.
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My neighbor has some long, slender chili peppers in his garden.
Blog text (16) -
Chili peppers from Mesoamerica are used to flavor food throughout the world.
Academic text (1992) -
You could add sliced red chili peppers, sliced onion, or sliced garlic.
Blog text (18)
Synonyms
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1.5
A small hot pepper with a pointed shape that adds spice to food
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2.0
A long hot chili used fresh or dried to add spice to food
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5.1
A dried, smoked jalapeño pepper that adds a smoky, spicy taste to food
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2.0
A spicy red or green pepper used to add heat to food
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4.9
A small very hot chili pepper that makes food spicy
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2.5
A long thin hot red chili used in cooking
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3.9
A mild green chili pepper from Mexico used in cooking
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3.0
A medium-hot green or red chili from Mexico used in cooking
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6.6
A dried chili pepper from Mexico with mild heat and rich red color
A small very hot red chili that people use to make hot sauce
A small plant from Central America with tiny red fruits that are very hot to eat
A small round red fruit like a cherry that has a spicy taste
A long thin very hot pepper often red used to add heat to food
A tropical pepper plant that makes small very hot red peppers for hot sauces
A pepper plant from tropical America that has small very hot red fruits often used in cooking
A small plant with tiny, very hot red peppers used in South American cooking
A plant that produces vegetables like bell peppers and chili peppers
How Hot
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small spicy pod or the plant that produces it' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'chili' (a small, pointed pepper) with 'pepper' (Capsicum plant/fruit). This noun–noun compound simply specifies a type of pepper and follows cross-linguistically common compositional naming patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Chili pepper joins two ideas: chili, a word from the people of Mexico for hot red or green pods, and pepper, the familiar spice Europeans knew. Because Europeans compared the sharp heat to black pepper, the combined name stuck, and today chili pepper means 'a small spicy pod used to add heat and flavor to food'.