common pepper

common pepper
noun
climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
Hypernyms: ↑true pepper, ↑pepper vine
Member Holonyms: ↑Piper, ↑genus Piper
Substance Meronyms: ↑piperin, ↑piperine
Part Meronyms: ↑pepper, ↑peppercorn

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