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Answer for the clue "Usually red ", 8 letters:
jalapeno

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Word definitions for jalapeno in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cultivar of hot chili pepper, ''Capsicum annuum''

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of pepper, by 1957, literally "of Jalapa," from Mexican Spanish Jalapa , place in Mexico, from Aztec Xalapan , literally "sand by the water," from xalli "sand" + atl "water" + -pan "place."

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red [syn: cayenne , cayenne pepper , chili pepper , chilli pepper , long pepper , Capsicum annuum longum ] hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico [syn: jalapeno ...

Usage examples of jalapeno.

He was also snacking on a plate of poppers: batter-fried jalapeno peppers filled with molten cheese.

I took one and bit into it, experiencing the spurt of melted cheese before the heat of the jalapeno set my tongue aflame.

I called and ordered a medium sausage-and-pepperoni pizza with jalapeno peppers and extra cheese on top.

He was heavy into pickles, olives, anchovies, jalapeno peppers, and other foodstuffs in which no germs could live.

Part of her unique stage shtick, her comedic ID, was to present herself as a true Southwest chick, a sand-sucking cactuskicker who ate a bowl of jalapeno peppers every morning for breakfast, who hung out in country-music bars with guys named Tex and Dusty, who was a full sun-ripened woman but also tough enough to grab a rattlesnake if it dared to hiss at her, crack it like a whip, and snap its brains out through its eye sockets.

Liz had given him a bowl or two of Guinness and I, after the chicken bones had no visible effect, had plied him with everything from whole jalapeƱos to the bottlecaps from Liz's home brew.

The Strip delicacy was a Philly cheesesteak served with red and yellow chilies instead of the usual onions, and jalapeno cheese in place of Swiss.

In the States, for instance, he acquired a taste for sour-mash bourbon whiskey, jalapeno peppers, chili con carne (which he insisted on not only making himself, but forcing upon civilized people), and the really outrageous habit of rising in the middle of the night to go to work.

There was a dish of jalapenos for Hoke, black and green olives, and a bowl of jellied cranberry sauce.

I listened, holding my breath, nearly as silent as the dead except for the faint gurgle of my stomach, which continued to work on a pre-midnight snack of jack cheese, onion bread, and jalapeno peppers.

It also contained jalapenos and chopped red peppers that had never been grown in the state of Arkansas.