PEPPER FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pepper family mean? 

• PEPPER FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PEPPER FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets

  Familiarity information: PEPPER FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEPPER FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae

Hypernyms ("pepper family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "pepper family"):

genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)

genus Peperomia (large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs)

Holonyms ("pepper family" is a member of...):

order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)