serrano

[suh-rah-noh]

noun

plural

serranos 

1. a small, green or reddish, extremely hot chile pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum used in cooking.

Word History and Origins

Origin of serrano¹

First recorded in 1950–55; from Mexican Spanish, short for chile serrano “mountain chile,” from Spanish serrano “of a mountain; mountain; highlands; a highlander,” from sierra ( def. )

Example Sentences

Shea Serrano’s catalogue of basketball greatness looks past stats and scores to privilege transcendent moments on the court.

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Shea Serrano—bestselling author, television-series creator, digital publisher, San Antonio Spurs devotee—is an accomplished mixologist of hoops and culture.

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An easier explanation is that Mr. Serrano favors poet’s truths, choosing art over science most of the time—the “unquantifiable” and the “uncomputable.”

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In Mr. Serrano’s telling, the shot resembled a “meteor falling from space” before it zipped through the basket as the Philadelphia 76ers star “casually walked away from the play.”

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I was thankful to Mr. Serrano for his chapter “The Alchemy of Vince Carter’s Performance at the 2000 Dunk Contest.”

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