What is "cayenne"

Cayenne \Cay*enne\, n. [From Cayenne, a town and island in French Guiana, South America.] Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper.

1. (Bot.) A species of Capsicum ( Capsicum frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit.

2. A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. Capsicum annuum and Capsicum Frutescens; -- called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

"pungent dried pepper," 1756, from Tupi (Brazil) kyynha "capsicum," mistakenly associated with town of Cayenne in French Guyana. The town name is the French form of Guyana.

n. cayenne pepper.

1. n. 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]

Cayenne (; ) is the capital city of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. The city stands on a former island at the mouth of the Cayenne River on the Atlantic coast. The city's motto is "fert aurum industria" which means "work brings wealth".

At the 2012 census, there were 121,308 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Cayenne (as defined by INSEE), 55,198 of whom lived in the city ( commune) of Cayenne proper.

Cayenne is a dependently typed functional programming language created by Lennart Augustsson in 1998, making it one of the earliest dependently type programming language (as opposed to proof assistant or logical framework). A notable design decision is that the language allows unbounded recursive functions to be used on the type level, making type checking undecidable. Most dependently typed proof assistants and later dependently typed languages such as Agda included a termination checker to prevent the type checker from looping, while the contemporary Dependent ML restricted the expressivity of the type-level language to maintain decidability.

There are very few building blocks in the language, but much syntactic sugar to make it more readable. The basic types are functions, products, and sums. Functions and products use dependent types to gain additional power. The syntax is largely borrowed from Haskell. There is no special module system, because with dependent types records (products) are powerful enough to define modules.

The Cayenne implementation was written in Haskell, and it also translated to Haskell, but is currently no longer being maintained.

"Cayenne" is an instrumental track by the Beatles. It was recorded in 1960, when they were still known as The Quarrymen, and was not officially released until its inclusion on the 1995 album Anthology 1.

According to Paul McCartney, the recordings were made in the McCartney family bathroom in April 1960. while they were rehearsing. The song is not credited to Lennon–McCartney but to McCartney alone, indicating that at this stage Lennon and McCartney had not agreed on the joint writing credit that they used for all of the band's professional recording career. The track is an instrumental jam similar in style to that of The Shadows. Stuart Sutcliffe plays bass with what critic Richie Unterberger described as an "artless thump". "Cayenne" is a 12-bar blues composition in the key of d-minor.

"Cayenne" and two other homemade Quarrymen recordings, "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" and " You'll Be Mine", were included in Anthology 1, a collection of Beatles rarities and alternate tracks from 1958 to 1964. They are the only officially released Beatles recordings to feature Stuart Sutcliffe on bass. Sutcliffe, John Lennon's close friend from art college, joined the band in 1960 as the bass player and played with them in Hamburg in 1960 and 1961 before leaving to concentrate on his art studies. Sutcliffe died of a brain haemorrhage in 1962. Although the tape was made in 1960, the tape was not discovered until much later by the McCartney's neighbors on 20 Forthlin Road.

The recording which appeared on Anthology 1 was edited and made faster, giving it a length of 1 minute and 1 seconds while the original was 2 minutes and 24 seconds.

The song was in the instrumental rock style, which was becoming popular in the early sixties with bands such as the shadows. Another song the band did in the instrumental style was Cry for a Shadow in 1961.

Cayenne may refer to:

• Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana
• Cayenne pepper
• Cayenne (mascot)
• "Cayenne" (song), by the Beatles
• Porsche Cayenne, auto model

Software:

• Apache Cayenne
• Cayenne (programming language)

Cayenne is a "spirit leader" of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns (often referred to by the nickname Louisiana or Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns,) athletic teams. He is an anthropomorphic Cayenne pepper (a staple spice of the Acadiana region in which the university is located).

The Cajuns do not have an official mascot. In recent years the university has had several mascots including live bulldogs (when the athletic teams were named the Bulldogs), Mr. Ragin' Cajun (animated), and the Fabulous Cajun Chicken (the most popular mascot in the history of the school). Cayenne was created using an "out of the box" method. Instead of being a physical representation of Ragin' Cajuns, like most mascots are, Cayenne is the embodiment of the Ragin' Cajun spirit of Acadiana.

Cayenne was introduced in 2000, and changes clothes depending on what sporting event he's at, e.g., he wears a Ragin' Cajun football uniform at the football games, and a 'Louisiana Ragin Cajuns' basketball jersey for the basketball games.

Cayenne, currently the capital of French Guiana, was a hotly contested area between French and Dutch colonizers in the 17th century. In 1615, Theodore Claessen founded a Dutch colony at Cayenne, but it seems to have perished quickly. Another expedition to found a settlement at Cayenne left Flushing in 1626, under the captaincy of Claude Prevost.

Whereas these early Dutch colonization attempts were organized from the County of Zeeland, in 1635 an expedition was organized from the city of Amsterdam in the County of Holland, much to the dismay of Zeelanders. Under the leadership of David Pietersz. de Vries, a group of about thirty colonists restored an abandoned French fort on Mecoria island on the Cayenne River and tried to cultivate the land. The colonization attempt seems to have ended with De Vries' departure.

In the late 1650s, a more serious attempt at colonization followed. Jan Claessen Langendyck's request to colonize the area again was approved by the Dutch West India Company, and had set up a colony by 1659. He remained in charge of the colony until 1663, when Quirijn Spranger took over the leadership of the colony.

The Langendyck colony was followed by a Jewish settlement initiated by David Cohen Nassy, consisting mainly of Jewish planters who had to leave Dutch Brazil upon its recapture by Portugal. Nassy received permission to found a colony in January 1658, to be located at some distance from the older colony of Langendyck. Both the Langendyck colony and the Nassy colony were seized by the French in 1664. Nassy and his Jewish colonists then moved to the neighbouring colony of Surinam, at the time still an English colony, where they joined the Jewish colonists at Jodensavanne.

During the Franco-Dutch War, Jacob Binckes captured Cayenne for the Dutch in 1676. Later the same year, the French recaptured their colony under the command of Jean II d'Estrées.

By that time, contention over the colonies in the Guianas had ended, and little changed until the United Kingdom took over the colonies of Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo in 1814. Cayenne is still a French overseas department to this day.