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What is the noun for chilli?

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chili
  1. The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used especially to add heat, or as a flavouring in cooking; associated with Mexican, Tex-Mex, and Indian cuisine.
  2. A dish made with this fruit and other ingredients, such as beans and beef; chili con carne.
  3. (uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I love adding a little bit of chili to my dishes for an extra kick of spice.”
      “Drain the vinegar from the clam and add the sweet pea juice, wasabi, water chestnuts, chili, parsley and sea salt and toss to combine.”
      “It jarred with the sweetish tomato sauce I paired it with until added chili flakes to the food.”
chilaca
  1. A variety of chili; when dried, the chilis are called pasillas.
chilli
  1. Alternative form of chili
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is large enough to serve as lunch for two or three, and luxuriously flavoured with pork adobo and with chilli.”
      “At this stage you can whisk or stir in any chosen flavouring such as sweet chilli sauce.”
      “The water chestnuts went with the baby corn and straw mushrooms very well, and the cream cut the chilli heat to perfection.”
chilacas
  1. plural of chilaca
chillis
  1. plural of chilli
chillies
  1. plural of chilli
  2. Examples:
    1. “They are sauteing garlic and onion and chopping tomatoes and chillies with aplomb that would shame a sous-chef in Bombay.”
      “Women sell everything from tomatoes, chillies and betel to clay coffee roasters and straw sleeping mats.”
      “They gave wheat, barley and mustard at the time of the rabi and at the time of kharif, rice, pulses, beans, salt and chillies were collected.”
chilis
  1. plural of chili
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There are enormous bags of scarlet chilis, sacks of tobacco and piles of wicker baskets.”
      “I pile on some faintly garlicked guac and make short work of a yummy ground-beef enchilada, although I know the enchilada gravy could taste more emphatically of red chilis.”
      “It's almost suffocatingly nourishing, with plenty of chilis and vinegar, bamboo shoots, carrots, chicken, egg, tofu, pork, baby shrimp, and mushrooms.”
chilies
  1. plural of chili
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I was supposed to de-stem and tear up 1.5 ounces each of mulato, ancho and pasillo chilies.”
      “Strain the chilies through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the water and chilies separately.”
      “We picked oregano from the field and gathered garlic, onions, and chilies from the shed.”
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