Pepper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Black pepper.
  • n. Any of several plants of the genus Piper, as cubeb, betel, and kava.
  • n. Any of several tropical American, cultivated forms of Capsicum frutescens or C. annuum, having podlike, many-seeded, variously colored berries.
  • n. The podlike fruit of any of these plants, varying in size, shape, and degree of pungency, with the milder types including the bell pepper and pimiento, and the more pungent types including the cherry pepper.
  • n. Any of various condiments made from the more pungent varieties of Capsicum frutescens, such as cayenne pepper, tabasco pepper, and chili. Also called hot pepper.
  • n. Baseball A warm-up exercise in which players standing a short distance from a batter field the ball and toss it to the batter, who hits each toss back to the fielders. Also called pepper game.
  • v. To season or sprinkle with pepper.
  • v. To sprinkle liberally; dot.
  • v. To shower with or as if with small missiles. See Synonyms at barrage2.
  • v. To make (a speech, for example) lively and vivid with wit or invective.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A plant of the family Piperaceae.
  • n. A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe red berries of this plant.
  • n. A fruit of the capsicum: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
  • n. A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
  • v. To add pepper to.
  • v. To strike with something made up of small particles.
  • v. To be covered with lots of (something made up of small things).
  • v. To add (something) at frequent intervals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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 (of the Solanaceae family, which are unrelated to Piper), and its fruit; red pepper; chili pepper. These contain varying levels of the substance capsaicin (C18H27O3N), which gives the peppers their hot taste. The habanero is about 25-50 times hotter than the jalapeno according to a scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912. See also Capsicum and http://www.chili-pepper-plants.com/.
  • v. To sprinkle or season with pepper.
  • v. Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.
  • verb-intransitive. To fire numerous shots (at).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The product of plants of the genus Piper, chiefly of P. nigrum, consisting of the berries, which afford an aromatic and pungent condiment.
  • n. Any plant of the genus Piper; especially, one that produces the pepper of commerce (see def. 1).
  • n. A plant of the genus Capsicum, or one of its pods. These pods are the source of Cayenne pepper, and form the green and red peppers used in sauces, etc.
  • n. A bitter, biting drink [peppermint, Morris].
  • n. A pepper-caster: as, a pair of silver-mounted peppers.
  • n. In the West Indies, also, other plants of the genus Xylopia.
  • n. See Capsicum.
  • n. Same as chilli.
  • n. Same as wall-pepper.
  • To sprinkle with pepper; make pungent: as, mutton-chops well peppered.—2. To pelt with shot or other missiles; hit with what pains or annoys; also, to attack with bitter or pungent words.
  • To cover with small sores.
  • To pelt thoroughly; give a quietus to; do for.
  • n. A tall shrub of the pepper family, Piper Novæ-Hollandiæ, found in dense forests where it climbs to the tops of the tallest trees. It is used in the treatment of catarrhal affections. Called also native pepper-vine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
  • v. add pepper to
  • n. sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
  • v. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
  • n. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
  • n. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    peppered    peppering    peppers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spice    spice up    zest    assail    attack    pepper vine    true pepper   
    Variant
    capsicum   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pelt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hepper    leper    lepper    lepre    peper    repr    stepper   
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