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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum chinense having small, round, extremely hot green to red fruit.

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  • noun An intensely piquant chilli pepper, species name Capsicum chinense.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, of Havana (from the theory that it originated in Cuba), from (La) Habana, Havana.]

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From Spanish habanero.

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