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red pepper
- any of various capsicums having a many-seeded green fruit that turns red when it is ripe
- the fruit
See red pepper in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The pungent, red, podlike fruit of any of several cultivars of the pepper plants, Capsicum frutescens and C. annum.
- See cayenne pepper.
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