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PEPPER VINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper
Synonyms:
pepper vine; true pepper
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pepper vine" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pepper vine"):
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 leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians)
cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba (tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits)
Holonyms ("pepper vine" is a member of...):
genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)
