noun
- a hot pepper, especially one used in Mexican and Southwestern cooking
Usage: also spelled chili or chilli
Examples
- She added dried chile to the sauce for extra heat.
- The recipe calls for two green chiles, roasted and peeled.
- New Mexico is famous for its red and green chile peppers.
- He couldn’t handle the spicy chile in his burrito.
- The chile harvest begins in late summer.
- She grows several varieties of chile in her garden.