| black pepper 
 
 1. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe;
 southern India and Sri Lanka;
 naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
 • Syn:
 pepper, common pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum
 • Hypernyms:
 true pepper, pepper vine
 • Member Holonyms:
 Piper, genus Piper
 • Substance Meronyms:
 piperin, piperine
 • Part Meronyms:
 pepper, peppercorn
 2. pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on
 • Hypernyms:
 pepper, peppercorn
 
 
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