cascabel

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From the Spanish cascabel (“‘bell or rattle’”).

[edit] Noun

cascabel (plural cascabels)

1. A variety of small, round, hot chili pepper (Capsicum annuum). Named so because the seeds make a rattling noise when the pepper is dried.
2. A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gunbarrel, to which ropes are attached.
3. A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.

[edit] Synonyms

• (cascabel pepper): chile bola, bola chile, rattle chile, coban.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia article on Cascabel
• Wikipedia article on Chile Peppers