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Chilli

noun
(pl. chillies, chillis)
1.
Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.  Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilly.



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"Chilli" Quotes from Famous Books



... In this cut the left-hand figure is the hieroglyphic of the town of Chilapi, and is an excellent representation of their rebus-writing we have just referred to. It is a tub of water, on which floats a red-pepper pod. The Mexican word for this last is chilli, for water it is "atl.". The word "pa" means above. For the full word we have "chilli-atl-pa." Contracted, it becomes chilapi. The figure to the right is the tribute. The five flags denotes one hundred. Below is represented a copper ax-blade—from which we infer that the Pueblo ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen



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