black pepper
1. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam • Syn: pepper, common pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum • Hypernyms: true pepper, pepper vine • Member Holonyms: Piper, genus Piper • Substance Meronyms: piperin, piperine • Part Meronyms: pepper, peppercorn 2. pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on • Hypernyms: pepper, peppercorn
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