tabasco pepper

Questions about tabasco pepper

What does tabasco pepper mean?

tabasco pepper 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 tabasco pepper?

Close synonyms include hot pepper, tabasco plant, Capsicum frutescens. 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 tabasco pepper a common word?

tabasco pepper 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.