sweet pepper

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sweet pepper (countable and uncountable, plural sweet peppers)

  1. (UK) The fruit of a nonspicy cultivar of pepper, Capsicum annuum, marketed in green-, red-, yellow- and orange-skinned varieties.
    Synonym: capsicum (Australia)
    Hypernyms: pepper, capsicum
    Hyponym: bell pepper (US)

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