capsicum frutescens

Questions about capsicum frutescens

What does capsicum frutescens mean?

capsicum frutescens means "plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce".

What is another word for capsicum frutescens?

Close synonyms include tabasco pepper, hot pepper, tabasco plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capsicum frutescens a common word?

capsicum frutescens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.