paprika
Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
Other meanings
A variety of the spice.
A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.
Synonyms
- sweet pepper
- sweet pepper plant
A kind of
- capsicum
Related words
- paprika paste
- Spanish paprika
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “paprika” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.