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COMMON PEPPER

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Meaning:

Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assamplay

Synonyms:

black pepper; common pepper; Madagascar pepper; pepper; Piper nigrum; white pepper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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