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–noun

1.	any plant of the genus Capsicum, of the nightshade family, as C. annuum, the common pepper of the garden, occurring in many varieties.

2.	the fruit of such a plant or some preparation of it, used as a condiment and intestinal stimulant.

[Origin: 1655–65; < NL, equiv. to L caps(a) case² + -icum, neut. of -icus -ic

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cap·si·cum Audio Help (kāp'sĭ-kəm) Pronunciation Key
n.

Any of various tropical American pepper plants of the genus Capsicum, especially any of the numerous cultivated forms of the species C. annuum and C. frutescens.
The fruit of any of these plants, especially the dried pungent types used as a condiment and in medicine.

[New Latin Capsicum, genus name, perhaps from Latin capsa, box (from its podlike fruit).]

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capsicum
noun
1.	any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
2.	chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers [syn: genus Capsicum]

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Capsicum

Cap*sa"i*cin\, n. [From Capsicum.] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

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