sweet pepper

American  

noun

sweet peppers plural

1. a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, having a mild-flavored, bell-shaped or somewhat oblong fruit.

2. the fruit itself, used as a vegetable.

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sweet pepper British  

noun

1. a pepper plant, Capsicum frutescens grossum, with large bell-shaped fruits that are eaten unripe ( green pepper ) or ripe ( red pepper )

2. the fruit of this plant

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sweet peppers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sweet pepper

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Alongside Doe Hill golden sweet bell pepper, a pre-1900 Virginia family heirloom, is Pimiento Lago Agrio, an Ecuadorian sweet pepper with 2-inch, pumpkin-shaped fruits.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Another, Rufino Guinea, said his sweet pepper crop had been ravaged.

From Reuters • Aug. 19, 2022

Sauté onion and sweet pepper in butter in large dutch oven.

From Fox News • Sep. 30, 2021

Beside it is a large bowl of salatit khyar bi laban, a cool homemade yogurt dish mixed with diced cucumber, garlic and mint; a salad; and preserved eggplants stuffed with sweet pepper and walnut.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2017

She was happy sitting on the grass, drawing the fine, sharp blades between her fingers, sniffing the smell of the mignonette that tingled like sweet pepper, opening and shutting the yellow mouths of the snap-dragon.

From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May