noun
1. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
• Syn: ↑pepper, ↑common pepper, ↑white pepper, ↑Madagascar pepper, ↑Piper nigrum
• Hypernyms: ↑true pepper, ↑pepper vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Piper, ↑genus Piper
• Part Meronyms: ↑pepper, ↑peppercorn
2. pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on
• Hypernyms: ↑pepper, ↑peppercorn
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noun [noncount]
: a food seasoning that is made by grinding the dried berries of an Indian plant along with their hard, black covers — compare ↑white pepper
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salt and freshly ground black pepper
Useful english dictionary. 2012.