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JAVA PEPPER
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
Synonyms:
cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Java pepper" is a kind of...):
pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)
Meronyms (parts of "Java pepper"):
cubeb (spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes)
Holonyms ("Java pepper" is a member of...):
genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)