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black pepper

DEFINITIONS OF: black pepper

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

Synonyms:
Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum, common pepper, pepper, white pepper
Type of:
pepper vine, true pepper
any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper

n pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on

Type of:
pepper, peppercorn
pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
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