green pepper vs pepper

green pepper

noun
  • A green variety of dried peppercorn, made from the unripe berries by treating them in a manner that retains the green colour. 

  • The green, unripe, form of the sweet bell pepper. Popular in cooking, especially Italian cuisine. The unripe bell pepper is green and generally changes to other colors as it matures, cultivars exist for red, orange, yellow and other shades. 

pepper

noun
  • A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. 

  • A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties. 

  • A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value. 

  • A plant of the family Piperaceae. 

  • A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again 

  • A beating; a thrashing. 

verb
  • To beat or thrash. 

  • To strike with something made up of small particles. 

  • To add (something) at frequent intervals. 

  • To add pepper to. 

  • To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). 

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