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    PEPPER VINE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piperplay

    Synonyms:

    pepper vine; true pepper

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("pepper vine" 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 "pepper vine"):

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

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

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