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    BLACK PEPPER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks onplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

    pepper; peppercorn (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assamplay

    Synonyms:

    black pepper; common pepper; Madagascar pepper; pepper; Piper nigrum; white pepper

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)

    Meronyms (parts of "black pepper"):

    pepper; peppercorn (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)

    Meronyms (substance of "black pepper"):

    piperin; piperine (derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper)

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

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

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