gua•jil•lo
(gwä-hēyō, gwə-)
(gwä-hēyō, gwə-)n.pl. gua•jil•los
1. A variety of the tropical pepper Capsicum annuum having a deep reddish-orange fruit that is mildly to moderately hot.
2. The fruit of this plant.
[Mexican Spanish, from diminutive ofguaje, any of several tropical Mexican leguminous trees of the genus Leucaena that bear edible seedpods (the chili being so called because its fruits resemble these seedpods), fromNahuatlhuāxin.]
guajilloCapsicum annuum