Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cayenne"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cayenne \Cay*enne\, n. [From Cayenne, a town and island in
French Guiana, South America.]
Cayenne pepper.
{Cayenne pepper}.
(a) (Bot.) A species of {Capsicum} ({C. frutescens}) with
small and intensely pungent fruit.
(b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the
fruits or seeds of several species of the genus
{Capsicum}, esp. {C. annuum} and {C. Frutescens}; --
called also {red pepper}. It is used chiefly as a
condiment.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cayenne
n 1: plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers;
usually red [syn: {cayenne pepper}, {chili pepper}, {chilli
pepper}, {long pepper}, {jalapeno}, {Capsicum annuum
longum}]
2: ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus
Capsicum [syn: {cayenne pepper}, {red pepper}]
3: a long and often twisted hot red pepper [syn: {cayenne
pepper}]
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