English > genus Piper: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs. |
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| Synonym | Piper |
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| Member of | Piperaceae, family Piperaceae, pepper family | Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets |
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| Members | betel, betel pepper, Piper betel | Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians |
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| cubeb, cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba | Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits |
| long pepper, Piper longum | Slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas |
| pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum | climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe |
| true pepper, pepper vine | Any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | genus piper, piper |
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| Catalan | genus piper, piper, Piper |
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