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PEPPER FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets

Synonyms:

family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "pepper family"):

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

genus Peperomia (large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs)

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

order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)

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