pepper - sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

genus Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers

Capsicum annuum conoides, cone pepper - plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental

Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper - plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red

bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper plant, sweet pepper - plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers

sweet pepper - mild bell-shaped fruit of a sweet pepper plant; usually green and red but now available in orange and yellow and purple and black and white

Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, cherry pepper - plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits

bird pepper, Capsicum baccatum, Capsicum frutescens baccatum - 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

Capsicum frutescens, hot pepper, tabasco pepper, tabasco plant - plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

capsaicin - colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno