sweet pepper

sweet pepper
The fruit of a non-spicy variety of pepper (genus Capsicum), also called bell pepper. Available in green, red, yellow and orange skinned varieties (the green is generally the unripe variety and the colored versions the sweeter, ripe fruit).

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  • sweet pepper — noun count a green, red, or yellow vegetable that does not have a strong flavor. Sweet peppers are often simply called peppers: BELL PEPPER …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • sweet pepper — sweet peppers N COUNT A sweet pepper is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable. Syn: capsicum …   English dictionary

  • sweet pepper — ► NOUN ▪ a large green, yellow, orange, or red variety of capsicum with a mild or sweet flavour …   English terms dictionary

  • sweet pepper — n a green, red, or yellow vegetable that is hollow with many seeds …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • sweet pepper — n. 1. any of various large, mild red peppers: see CAPSICUM (sense 1) 2. a plant on which these grow …   English World dictionary

  • sweet pepper — noun 1. plant bearing large mild thick walled usually bell shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers • Syn: ↑bell pepper, ↑pimento, ↑pimiento, ↑paprika, ↑sweet pepper plant, ↑Capsicum annuum grossum • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • sweet pepper — vienametė paprika statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Bulvinių šeimos daržovinis, dekoratyvinis, prieskoninis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Capsicum annuum). Iš jo gaminami maisto priedai (dažikliai, kvėpikliai). atitikmenys: lot. Capsicum… …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • sweet pepper — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sweet pepper : singular sweet pepper plural sweet peppers a green, red, or yellow vegetable that does not have a strong flavour. Sweet peppers are often simply called peppers …   English dictionary

  • Sweet pepper bush — Pepper Pep per, n. [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L. piper, fr. Gr. ?, ?, akin to Skr. pippala, pippali.] 1. A well known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the {Piper nigrum}. [1913 Webster] Note: Common, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sweet pepper — sweet′ pep′per n. 1) pln a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, having a mild flavored, bell shaped or somewhat oblong fruit 2) pln the fruit itself, used as a vegetable Also called bell pepper …   From formal English to slang

  • sweet pepper plant — noun plant bearing large mild thick walled usually bell shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers • Syn: ↑sweet pepper, ↑bell pepper, ↑pimento, ↑pimiento, ↑paprika, ↑Capsicum annuum grossum • Hypernyms: ↑capsicum …   Useful english dictionary

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