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PEPPERCORN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
Synonyms:
pepper; peppercorn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("peppercorn" is a kind of...):
flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peppercorn"):
black pepper (pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on)
white pepper (pepper ground from husked peppercorns)
Holonyms ("peppercorn" is a part of...):
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)
