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chili — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chili noun A hot-tasting pepper (fresh or dried) used to add spice to food.
  • pepper noun A spice made from the dried berries of the pepper plant, used to add heat and flavor to food.

Senses

chili is used for these senses in English:

  • chili (countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
  • pepper (UK, US, Ireland, and, Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.

chili — full definition

  1. noun A hot-tasting pepper (fresh or dried) used to add spice to food.
  2. noun A thick, spicy stew usually made with meat or beans and chili peppers.

pepper — full definition

  1. noun A spice made from the dried berries of the pepper plant, used to add heat and flavor to food.
  2. noun A hollow, seed-filled fruit of the capsicum plant, ranging from mild bell peppers to hot chili varieties.
  3. verb To scatter or strike something repeatedly, as if with shot or small particles.

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