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Black pepper

noun

Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam. Synonyms: common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper.

Pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on.

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... exceptions to these remarks, for both the shape of their heads and growth of wool are peculiar; the latter, for instance, springs from the scalp in tufts with bare spaces between, and when the crop is short, resembles a number of black pepper-corns stuck on the skin, and very unlike the thick frizzly masses which cover the heads of the Balonda and Maravi. With every disposition to pay due deference to the opinions of those who have made ethnology their special study, I have felt myself unable to believe that the exaggerated ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

Words linked to "Black pepper" : piperin, genus Piper, pepper vine, piperine, piper, true pepper, peppercorn