sweet pepper plant
- noun
- /swit ˈpɛpər plænt/
- UK
:
pimiento dulce
- We planted a sweet pepper plant in the garden to add color to our salads.
Examples
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He watered his sweet pepper plants every morning to ensure a healthy harvest.
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Each sweet pepper plant can produce several vibrant red and yellow fruits over the summer.
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The sweet pepper plant thrives in warm climates.
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I bought a sweet pepper plant for my garden.
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The gardener was excited to see the first fruits of his sweet pepper plant appearing in the garden.
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In the summer, the sweet pepper plant produced large fruits that were perfect for salads and snacks.
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After careful nurturing, each sweet pepper plant developed beautifully and brought vibrant colors to the vegetable patch.
Synonyms
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1.6
A large sweet vegetable shaped like a bell and eaten raw or cooked
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1.5
A large mild fruit often eaten as a vegetable with thick walls and a bell shape
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3.2
A pepper plant with large sweet fruits used in salads and to make the spice
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6.7
A plant that grows large mild red peppers used in salads or for stuffing
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
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'sweet' modifies 'pepper' and 'plant' denotes the organism bearing those peppers, so a learner who knows the three words can infer it is a pepper plant that produces mild/non-spicy fruits. This adjective+noun+noun construction is a regular, cross-linguistic descriptive pattern and is therefore immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Sweet pepper plant gets its name from the fruit it grows: a thick, bell-shaped pepper that tastes sweet rather than hot. So a sweet pepper plant is simply a plant that makes these 'mild' peppers used in 'salads'.