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green pepper

green pepper

15 1.0
A sweet pepper picked while green that turns red when ripe
  • noun
  • /ɡrin ˈpɛpər/
: pimiento verde
  • Along with the meat, you will also need ingredients like onion, red pepper, green pepper, diced garlic, and sea salt.
  • onions and green peppers
  • chop green peppers
  • garlic and green peppers

Like just get a nice kebab, salmon, green Peppers, onions, some rice, nice salad.

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Examples

  • On the side, I had some carrots and green peppers with avocado hummus.

    Blog text (28)

  • I love the crunch of fresh green peppers in my salads.

  • I think they would be good stuffed inside a green pepper with

    Blog text (6)

  • I could only eat the green peppers.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Do you have eggs, cheese, green pepper, tomato...

    Sabrina (1995)

  • I made this tonight and topped it with green peppers, green olives, and onions.

    Blog text (7)

  • I'm supposed to char the green peppers whole by setting them on the burners and turning the gas on full.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Locked in separate rooms and allowed to make only one phone call, we would each order pizza with green peppers and pineapple, easy on the cheese.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I topped my pizza with sauce, red onion, green pepper, broccoli, and mozzarella cheese.

    Blog text (6)

  • Meatloaf with green peppers.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

pepper
vsgreen pepper
213 1.0

A plant that makes hollow fruits eaten as vegetables, some sweet and some hot

is a narrower sweet variety harvested before ripening rather than all spicy types
bell pepper
vsgreen pepper
  • US
20 1.6

A large sweet vegetable shaped like a bell and eaten raw or cooked

is harvested before ripening and later changes color when fully ripe

How Ripe

ripe
65 1.0
green pepper
15 1.0
immature
12 3.0

Surface Forms

green pepper singular
green peppers plural

Morphology

green + pepper

The noun phrase is compositionally transparent: 'green' (the color/not ripe) modifies 'pepper' (the vegetable), so it straightforwardly denotes a pepper that is green or harvested unripe. This color + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English composition, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand the meaning.

Etymology

Green pepper is a simple, literal name: it is a pepper picked while still green, before it turns red and becomes ripe. That's why green pepper means the 'unripe' pepper people use in salads and cooking.