Paprika vs. Pepper: What's the Difference?

Paprika and Pepper Definitions
Paprika
A powdered seasoning made from sweet red peppers, ranging in flavor from mild to hot.
Pepper
A perennial climbing vine (Piper nigrum) native to India, widely cultivated for its long slender spikes of small fruit.
Paprika
A dark to deep or vivid reddish orange.
Pepper
A pungent black or white spice produced from the dried fruit of this plant, used as a condiment.
Paprika
(uncountable) Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
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Pepper
Any of several other plants of the genus Piper, such as cubeb, betel, and kava.
Paprika
(countable) A variety of the spice.
Pepper
Any of several tropical American, cultivated varieties of capsicum, having podlike, many-seeded, fruit.
Paprika
A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice.
Pepper
The podlike fruit of any of these plants, varying in size, shape, color, and degree of pungency, with the milder types including the bell pepper and pimiento, and the more pungent types including the habanero.
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Paprika
A bright reddish orange colour resembling that of the ground spice.
Pepper
Any of various condiments made from the more pungent varieties of capsicum, such as cayenne pepper, tabasco pepper, and chili. Also called hot pepper.
Paprika
Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.
Pepper
Any of various other plants producing pungent fruits, such as the Szechuan pepper.
Paprika
The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.
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Pepper
(Baseball) A warm-up exercise in which players standing a short distance from a batter field the ball and toss it to the batter, who hits each toss back to the fielders. Also called pepper game.
Paprika
Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
Pepper
To season or sprinkle with pepper.
Paprika
A mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos
Pepper
To sprinkle liberally; scatter
Peppered the confetti over the street.
Pepper
To strew something over
"Large splinters and chunks of timber peppered the ground" (John Guy).
Pepper
To strike with small missiles or gunfire.
Pepper
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
Pepper
(uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
Pepper
A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.Surely "pepper" covers all varieties as in most of this definition, while "bell pepper" and "capsicum" only refer to the large roundish mild varieties specifically
Pepper
(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
Pepper
(cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
Pepper
(transitive) To add pepper to.
Pepper
(transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
Pepper
(transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
Pepper
(transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
He liked to pepper his conversation with long words.
Pepper
To beat or thrash.
Pepper
A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
Pepper
The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
Pepper
Any plant of the genus Capsicum (of the Solanaceae family, which are unrelated to Piper), and its fruit; red pepper; chili pepper; as, the bell pepper and the jalapeno pepper (both Capsicum annuum) and the habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense); . These contain varying levels of the substance capsaicin (C18H27O3N), which gives the peppers their hot taste. The habanero is about 25-50 times hotter than the jalapeno according to a scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912. See also Capsicum and http://www.chili-pepper-plants.com/.
Pepper
To sprinkle or season with pepper.
Pepper
Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds; as, to pepper him with buckshot.
Pepper
To fire numerous shots (at).
Pepper
Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
Pepper
Any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
Pepper
Pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
Pepper
Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
Pepper
Add pepper to;
Pepper the soup
Pepper
Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles;
Pelt the speaker with questions