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PIPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Piper mean?
• PIPER (noun)
The noun PIPER has 2 senses:
1. someone who plays the bagpipe
2. type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
Familiarity information: PIPER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who plays the bagpipe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bagpiper; piper
Hypernyms ("piper" is a kind of...):
instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piper"):
pipe major (the chief piper in a band of bagpipes)
Derivation:
pipe (play on a pipe)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Piper; Piper
Hypernyms ("Piper" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Piper"):
pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)
black pepper; common pepper; Madagascar pepper; pepper; Piper nigrum; white pepper (climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam)
long pepper; Piper longum (slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas)
betel; betel pepper; Piper betel (Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians)
cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba (tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits)
Holonyms ("Piper" is a member of...):
family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae (tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets)
Context examples
The scientific name is Piper methysticum.
(Intoxicating pepper, NCI Dictionary)
A standardized extract containing the active alkaloid piperine, derived from the fruit of the plant Piper nigrum (black pepper) and/or the plant Piper longum L. (long pepper), with thermogenic properties.
(Piperine Extract (Standardized), NCI Thesaurus)
Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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