The difference between Chili pepper and Pepper

When used as nouns, chili pepper means any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus capsicum, which has a spicy/burning flavour because it contains capsaicin, whereas pepper means a plant of the family piperaceae.

Pepper is also verb with the meaning: to add pepper to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Chili pepper and Pepper

  1. Chili pepper as a noun:

    Any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum, which has a spicy/burning flavour because it contains capsaicin.

  1. Pepper as a noun:

    A plant of the family Piperaceae.

  2. Pepper as a noun (uncountable):

    A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

  3. Pepper as a noun (UK, US, Ireland, and, Canada):

    A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.

  4. Pepper as a noun (baseball):

    A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

    Examples:

    "Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games"."

  5. Pepper as a noun (cryptography):

    A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

  1. Pepper as a verb (transitive):

    To add pepper to.

  2. Pepper as a verb (transitive):

    To strike with something made up of small particles.

  3. Pepper as a verb (transitive):

    To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).

    Examples:

    "After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes."

  4. Pepper as a verb (transitive):

    To add (something) at frequent intervals.

    Examples:

    "He liked to pepper his conversation with long words."

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