Definition of Tabasco

1. Noun. A Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche.

Generic synonyms: Province, State
Group relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States

2. Noun. Very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers.
Exact synonyms: Tabasco Sauce
Terms within: Red Pepper
Generic synonyms: Hot Sauce

3. Noun. Very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small.
Exact synonyms: Red Pepper
Generic synonyms: Hot Pepper
Substance meronyms: Tabasco Sauce
Group relationships: Capsicum Frutescens, Hot Pepper, Tabasco Pepper, Tabasco Plant

Definition of Tabasco

1. Proper noun. A state of Mexico. ¹

2. Noun. A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt. ¹

3. Noun. A hot sauce made from red peppers, vinegar, and salt. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabasco

tab pages
tab stop
tab stops
tabacco
tabaccos
tabacosis
tabanid
tabanids
tabanus
tabard
tabarded
tabardillo
tabards
tabaret
tabarets
tabasco (current term)
tabasco pepper
tabasco plant
tabascos
tabasheer
tabashir
tabashirs
tabatiere anatomique
tabbed
tabbied
tabbies
tabbinet
tabbinets
tabbing
tabbis

Literary usage of Tabasco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Secrets in Stone: Yokes, Hachas and Palmas from Southern Mesoamerica by Edwin M. Shook, Elayne Marquis (1996)
"L\'D tabasco Between 1951 and 1956 excavations in Palenque yielded several complete and fragment hachas and a Large number of yoke fragments. ..."

2. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1893)
"The state of tabasco is situated in the torrid zone, on the seaboard of the ... As tabasco is surrounded by districts where yellow-fever prevails in an ..."

3. The Ancient Cities of the New World: Being Voyages and Explorations in by Désiré Charnay (1887)
"WE are once more at Vera Cruz, en route for tabasco, where we are received, as on our first arrival, with the terrible Norte, blowing so hard that no ..."

4. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"State of tabasco. The Gulf Coast State of tabasco (an Indian term signifying " damp earth"), with an area of 26094 kilom. and a population of 160000, ..."

5. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1908)
"So we passed on and after three days sail arrived at the Rio de Grijalva called in the Indian language the tabasco River, ..."

6. Mexico's Gulf Coast by Joanie Sanchez (2004)
"tabasco tabasco is hot and wet. Its sweltering summer heat is sticky and ... Humans, well, who IN THIS CHAPTER Villahermosa The Coast Western tabasco The ..."

7. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1885)
"THE secession of Yucatan, imitated by tabasco, the growing hostility of Texas which had actually assumed the offensive against its late mistress, ..."

8. Secrets in Stone: Yokes, Hachas and Palmas from Southern Mesoamerica by Edwin M. Shook, Elayne Marquis (1996)
"L\'D tabasco Between 1951 and 1956 excavations in Palenque yielded several complete and fragment hachas and a Large number of yoke fragments. ..."

9. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1893)
"The state of tabasco is situated in the torrid zone, on the seaboard of the ... As tabasco is surrounded by districts where yellow-fever prevails in an ..."

10. The Ancient Cities of the New World: Being Voyages and Explorations in by Désiré Charnay (1887)
"WE are once more at Vera Cruz, en route for tabasco, where we are received, as on our first arrival, with the terrible Norte, blowing so hard that no ..."

11. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"State of tabasco. The Gulf Coast State of tabasco (an Indian term signifying " damp earth"), with an area of 26094 kilom. and a population of 160000, ..."

12. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1908)
"So we passed on and after three days sail arrived at the Rio de Grijalva called in the Indian language the tabasco River, ..."

13. Mexico's Gulf Coast by Joanie Sanchez (2004)
"tabasco tabasco is hot and wet. Its sweltering summer heat is sticky and ... Humans, well, who IN THIS CHAPTER Villahermosa The Coast Western tabasco The ..."

14. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1885)
"THE secession of Yucatan, imitated by tabasco, the growing hostility of Texas which had actually assumed the offensive against its late mistress, ..."

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