The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bird pepper \Bird" pep`per\ A species of capsicum ( Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tropical American plant, ''Capsicum baccatum'' 2 The very hot, red fruit of this plant.
WordNet
n. plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers [syn: Capsicum frutescens baccatum, Capsicum baccatum]
Usage examples of "bird pepper".
A preparation in use in the West Indies called Mandram, for weak digestion and loss of appetite, is made of thinly sliced and unskinned cucumbers, shallots, chives, or onions, lemon or lime juice, Madeira, and a few pods of bird pepper well mashed up in the liquids.