Sentence:  No one knows if the colonists brought <WSD>datil</WSD> peppers with them.... More than likely the Minorcans did give the incendiary peppers their name, for the green to gold pods somewhat resemble dates, a linkage cemented by the knowledge that "datil" is the word for the fruit of the date palm in both the Catalan and Spanish languages. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A (datil pepper), a very spicy pepper of the species "Capsicum chinense".