jalapeño pepper
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- noun
- /ˌhɑːləˈpeɪnjoʊ ˈpɛpər/
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jalapeño
- Add the tomatoes, onion, jalapeño pepper, garlic, salt, and pepper to the mashed avocado.
- sliced jalapeno peppers
- chopped jalapeno pepper
- minced jalapeno pepper
Examples
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And to kick it up maybe a notch or two, I got a jalapeño pepper.
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But I liked the idea of lime juice with ginger, and for a little heat, I thought maybe a jalapeño pepper.
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Jalapeño pepper, sliced and minced
Blog text (27) -
I also noted that you decided against using shallots as they were too strong, but opted for ginger, lime, cilantro, and jalapeño pepper!
Blog text (29) -
You can smell the hot jalapeño peppers splitting open in my mother's spaghetti sauce.
Fiction book (2000) -
The President likes his burgers with cheese, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, and sometimes jalapeño peppers.
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Add diced jalapeño pepper to your salsa for an extra kick of heat.
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She chopped a fresh jalapeño pepper to add to the guacamole.
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For a spicy dish, include jalapeño peppers in your stir-fry recipe.
Synonyms
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A plant that makes hollow fruits eaten as vegetables, some sweet and some hot
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A medium hot green or red pepper used in Mexican cooking
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A spicy red or green pepper used to add heat to food
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A small red or green pod that makes food hot
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A vegetable like a bell pepper or hot pepper used for cooking
How Spicy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'jalapeño' names a specific spicy chili and 'pepper' indicates it is a capsicum, so the phrase simply specifies the type of pepper. Although 'jalapeño' alone often implies a pepper, the noun+noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Jalapeño pepper may come from the Mexican city Xalapa, where people were called jalapeños, so a local pepper took that name. These medium green or red peppers are 'spicy', so the name now helps you remember they add 'heat' to food.