Not to be pedantic, but red paprika is literally dried and powdered fruit (at least under the botanical definition of fruit).
I was thinking about red peppers. It's also technically a fruit, but at least in my country nobody considers peppers a fruit but vegtable.
On wikipedia they say AKA paprika:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper
> In some languages, the term paprika, which has its roots in the word for pepper, is used for both the spice and the fruit
Not to be pedantic, but red paprika is literally dried and powdered fruit (at least under the botanical definition of fruit).