Any of various small peppers of highly notable pungency or heat.
Any of the plants that bear such fruit, especially the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens and their numerous subspecies, varieties, or cultivars.
A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.
Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.
A variety of the spice.
Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.