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Capsicum (n.)
genus of pepper plants, 1660s, of unknown origin, a word said to have been chosen by French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708); perhaps irregularly formed from Latin
capsa
"box" (see
case
(n.2)).
