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pi⋅can⋅te

  [pi-kahn-tey; Sp. pee-kahn-te] adjective, noun, plural -tes [teyz; Sp. -tes] . Spanish and Latin-American Cookery.
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–adjective
1. prepared so as to be very hot and spicy, esp. with a hot and spicy sauce.
–noun
2. any food that is very hot and spicy, esp. a hot sauce.
Origin:
< Sp: spicy, hot, ptp. of picar to prick, bite; see pique, piquant
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