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Definition of Bird pepper
1. Noun. Plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers.
Group relationships: Capsicum, Genus Capsicum
Generic synonyms: Capsicum, Capsicum Pepper Plant, Pepper
Definition of Bird pepper
1. Noun. A tropical American plant, ''Capsicum baccatum.'' ¹
2. Noun. The very hot, red fruit of this plant. Scientific name: Capsicum baccatum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bird pepper
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bird Pepper
Literary usage of Bird pepper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. J. M. Nickell's Botanical Ready Reference (1880)
"bird pepper. Pod Pepper. Chillies. African Pepper. Chilly Pepper. African Cayenne
Pepper. African Red Pepper. Zanzibar Pepper. Goat's Pepper. Guinea Pepper. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Tbc West Indian stomachic man-dram is prepared by mashing a few pods of bird
pepper and mixing them with sliced cucumber and shallots, to which have been ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The West Indian stomachic Man-dram is prepared by mashing a few pods of bird
pepper and mixing them with sliced cucumber and shallots, to which have been ..."
4. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"The expressed juice of the fresh pods affords liquid bird-pepper, so much used
in soups iu most warm climates. Both the green and ripe pods are used as ..."
5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... as African Pepper, bird pepper, in Great Britain as Guinea Pepper and Chillies;
Capsicum, USP, Capsici fructus Br. Piper ..."
6. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"C. minimum, or bird pepper, attains a height of 2 or 3 feet. ... The bird pepper
pods are thoroughly dried in the sun and then in an oven, after which the ..."
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