Tabasco Definition
A state of Mexico.
- Tabasco sauce
- red-pepper
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Origin of Tabasco
Use of the term to refer to a hot sauce is a genericization of TABASCO, a trademarked brand of hot sauce produced by the US-based McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. The hot sauce is named after the tabasco pepper, which is named for the Mexican state.
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Either from a Nahuatl word meaning damp earth, or a Mayan term meaning our lord of eight lions.
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