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black pepper

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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.

black pepper
Noun
a dark-coloured hot seasoning made from the dried berries and husks of the pepper plant
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Noun1.black pepperblack pepper - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
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 black npoivre noir
black pepper nschwarzer Pfeffer m
black pepper npepe m nero


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There's my wife now, she never has an answer at her tongue's end; but if I offend her, she's sure to scarify my throat with black pepper the next day, or else give me the colic with watery greens.
 
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