TRUE PEPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does true pepper mean? 

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

1. any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUE PEPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pepper vine; true pepper

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

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "true pepper"):

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 ("true pepper" is a member of...):

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