A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum chinense having small, round, extremely hot green to red fruit.
[American Spanish, of Havana (from the theory that it originated in Cuba), from (La) Habana, Havana.]
habanero
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ha·ba·ne·ro (hä'bə-nâr'ō, ä'bä-nĕ'rō)  |
n., pl., -ros.
A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum chinense having small, round, extremely hot green to red fruit.
A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum chinense having small, round, extremely hot green to red fruit.
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