Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun capsicum

2 senses of capsicum

Sense 1
capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant -- (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Sense 2
genus Capsicum, Capsicum -- (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)
       => asterid dicot genus -- (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)