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| 1. | a hot, biting condiment composed of the ground pods and seeds of the pepper Capsicum annuum longum. |
| 2. | the long, wrinkled, twisted fruit of this plant. |
| 3. | the plant itself. |
Also called cayenne pepper.
[Origin: 1750–60; short for cayenne pepper, formerly cayan < Tupi kyinha, but long associated with Cayenne
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| 1. | a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana. 19,668. |
| 2. | (lowercase ) Also called cayenne whist. a variety of whist played with two full packs of 52 cards each. |
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The capital of French Guiana, on Cayenne Island at the mouth of the Cayenne River. Founded by the French in 1643, it was the center of a penal colony from the 1850s until the 1940s. Population: 61,600. |
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cayenne
1756, from Tupi (Brazil) kyynha, mistakenly associated with town of Cayenne in Fr. Guyana.
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| cayenne | |
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| 1. | plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red |
| 2. | ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum |
| 3. | a long and often twisted hot red pepper |
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Cayenne
Cay*enne\, n. [From Cayenne, a town and island in French Guiana, South America.] Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper. (a) (Bot.) A species of Capsicum (C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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