1. Large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong.
2. Mild bell-shaped fruit of a sweet pepper plant; usually green and red but now available in orange, yellow, purple, black and white.
3. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers; SYN. bell pepper, pimento, pimiento, paprika, sweet pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum.