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sweet pepper

sweet pepper

1 1.5
A large mild fruit often eaten as a vegetable with thick walls and a bell shape
  • noun
  • /ˈswit ˈpɛpər/
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  • What's good to grow inside Right now inside you want to go watermelons, sweet Peppers or Swiss Chard.
  • sweet peppers and onions
  • sweet peppers and tomatoes
  • sweet peppers and carrots

We got some fish Peppers here, these variegated fish Peppers, beautiful red sweet Peppers.

Examples

  • Starting garlic, ginger, and sweet peppers in pots.

    Blog text (12)

  • I love sweet Peppers, olives, a little bag of apple sweet, some more sweet Peppers.

  • Hot peppers, sweet peppers, whatever.

    Blog text (12)

  • So having some nice hot and sweet Peppers and the potato bed, I don't really have to say much.

  • Onions and sweet peppers would have been sweated before being combined with chopped tomatoes and beaten eggs.

    Blog text (17)

  • These laborers harvest a variety of crops, including Christmas trees, cucumbers, sweet peppers, and other vegetables, but the crop most responsible for the heavy influx of guest workers is tobacco.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Its vegetable hit list includes tomatoes, celery, cucumbers, lettuce, melons, spinach, sweet peppers, hot peppers, and squash.

    Academic text (1996)

  • "Many conventional and organic growers of broccoli, lettuce, and sweet peppers regularly plant so-called cover crops in their fields after they have harvested their cash crops."

    Academic text (2002)

  • Once boiled, this squishy, yellowish fruit is cooked with saltfish, onions, tomatoes, sweet peppers, scotch bonnet peppers, and thyme.

    Blog text (34)

  • I filled my salad with fresh sweet peppers and crunchy cucumbers.

Synonyms

bell pepper
vssweet pepper
  • US
21 1.6

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

is the broader term that can mean the plant or fruit
paprika
vssweet pepper
1 3.2

A pepper plant with large sweet fruits used in salads and to make the spice

is eaten as a vegetable rather than grown mainly for spice
pimento
vssweet pepper
1 6.7

A plant that grows large mild red peppers used in salads or for stuffing

is the general version not limited to red fruits or stuffing use
Capsicum annuum grossum
vssweet pepper
  • Specialized
4.1

A large sweet pepper with thick walls and a bell shape used in cooking

is the general common term rather than the botanical variety
sweet pepper plant
vssweet pepper
  • UK
2.3

A plant that grows large, mild fruits like bell peppers for salads

includes both the plant and the eaten fruit rather than only the plant

How Hot

habanero
4 4.9
sweet pepper
1 1.5

Surface Forms

sweet pepper singular
sweet peppers plural

Morphology

sweet + pepper

This noun phrase is compositionally transparent: 'sweet' describes a quality of the noun 'pepper', so the meaning 'a pepper that is sweet or mild (not hot)' follows directly from the constituents. The ADJ+NOUN pattern is a basic, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning from context.

Etymology

Sweet pepper comes from how early explorers named the new red and green fruits 'pepper' because they looked like the pepper they knew. People added sweet to show these were mild and not hot, so today sweet pepper means a large, non-spicy pepper eaten as a vegetable.