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pepper vine

DEFINITIONS OF: pepper vine

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n any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper

Synonyms:
true pepper
Types:
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Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum, black pepper, common pepper, pepper, white pepper
climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
Piper longum, long pepper
slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas
Piper betel, betel, betel pepper
Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb, cubeb vine
tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
Type of:
vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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