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COMMON PEPPER
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
Synonyms:
black pepper; common pepper; Madagascar pepper; pepper; Piper nigrum; white pepper
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("common pepper" is a kind of...):
pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)
Meronyms (parts of "common pepper"):
pepper; peppercorn (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)
Meronyms (substance of "common pepper"):
piperin; piperine (derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper)
Holonyms ("common pepper" is a member of...):
genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)