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black pepper

n.

The small, dark, unripe fruit of the pepper plant (Piper nigrum), used whole or ground as a pungent spice.

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black pepper

n

(Cookery) a pungent condiment made by grinding the dried unripe berries, together with their black husks, of the pepper plant Piper nigrum

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	black pepper - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper peppercorn, pepper - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground genus Piper, Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs pepper vine, true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper piperin, piperine - derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper
	2.	black pepper - pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on peppercorn, pepper - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground

Translations

black pepper n → pepe m nero