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Definition of Chillies
1. chilli [n] - See also: chilli
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chillies
Literary usage of Chillies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... description of which will be found in the article on the CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS.
The crops grown on the jums are rice, cotton, chillies, and vegetables; ..."
2. Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and by Peter Lund Simmonds (1889)
"chillies AND CAYENNE PEPPER.—The Cayenne pepper of commerce is obtained chiefly
from the pulverised chillies or fruit pods of one or two species of capsicum ..."
3. Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the by Antwerp Edgar Pratt (1906)
"... Sea-Slug—Copra and Cocoa-Nut—Coffee- Cocoa—chillies—Rubber—Stock -
Raising—Gold—Tobacco- Imports—German Enterprise—Our Lost Coaling Station. ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... is adulterated with water, sulphuric acid, burnt sugar, and sometimes with
chillies, grains of paradise, and pyroligneous acid. ..."
5. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"It is sold entire under the name of chillies. The microscopical structure of the
capsules is somewhat peculiar: the epidermis is formed of cells, ..."
6. The Native States of India by Jadab Chandra Chakrabarti (1895)
"Produce Wheat, Barley, Gram, Millet, Indian Corn, Rice, Cotton, Opium, Oil Seeds,
Ginger, chillies, Turmeric and Sugarcane. Revenue..... Rs. 2,o9,31o. ..."
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