Pepper

['pepə] or ['pɛpɚ]

Definition

(noun.) sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum.

(noun.) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground.

(noun.) climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.

(verb.) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; 'pelt the speaker with questions'.

(verb.) add pepper to; 'pepper the soup'.

Typist: Sanford--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.

(n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or season with pepper.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.

(v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at).

Editor: Moll

Definition

n. a pungent aromatic condiment consisting of the dried berries of the pepper-plant entire or powdered: any plant of genus Piper: a plant of genus Capsicum or one of its pods whence Cayenne pepper.—v.t. to sprinkle with pepper: to hit or pelt with shot &c.: to pelt thoroughly: to do for.—adj. Pepp′er-and-salt′ of a colour composed of a light ground dotted with fine spots of a dark colour or of a dark ground with light spots.—ns. Pepp′er-box a box with a perforated top for sprinkling pepper on food; Pepp′er-cake a kind of spiced cake or gingerbread; Pepp′er-cast′er the vessel on a cruet-stand from which pepper is sprinkled; Pepp′ercorn the berry of the pepper plant: something of little value—Peppercorn rent a nominal rent; Pepp′erer one who sells pepper a grocer; Pepp′er-gin′gerbread hot-spiced gingerbread; Pepp′er-grass any plant of genus Lepidium; Pepp′eriness; Pepp′ermint a species of mint aromatic and pungent like pepper: a liquor distilled from the plant: a lozenge flavoured with peppermint—Peppermint-drop a confection so flavoured; Pepp′er-pot a West Indian dish of cassareep together with flesh or dried fish and vegetables esp. green okra and chillies: tripe shredded and stewed with balls of dough and plenty of pepper; Pepp′er-tree a shrub of the cashew family native to South America &c.—also Pepper shrub and Chili pepper; Pepp′erwort the dittander.—adj. Pepp′ery possessing the qualities of pepper: hot choleric.—è‹©hiopian pepper the produce of Xylopia è‹©hiopica; Benin pepper of Cubeba Clusii; Guinea pepper or Maleguetta pepper of Amomum; Jamaica pepper or Pimento of species of Eugenia (Myrtace); Long pepper the fruit of Piper Longum; White pepper the seed freed from the skin and fleshy part of the fruit by soaking in water and rubbing the dried fruit.

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