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PIPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who plays the bagpipe
Synonyms:
bagpiper; piper
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("piper" is a kind of...):
instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piper"):
pipe major (the chief piper in a band of bagpipes)
Derivation:
pipe (play on a pipe)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
Synonyms:
genus Piper; Piper
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Piper" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Piper"):
pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)
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 ("Piper" is a member of...):
family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae (tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets)
