true pepper

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true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper pepper vine vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface genus Piper, Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs 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 long pepper, Piper longum - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas betel, betel pepper, Piper betel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb - tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits