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JAVA PEPPER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits

Synonyms:

cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Java pepper" is a kind of...):

pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)

Meronyms (parts of "Java pepper"):

cubeb (spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes)

Holonyms ("Java pepper" is a member of...):

genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)

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