white pepper

white pepper
noun
1. 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
2. pepper ground from husked peppercorns
Hypernyms: ↑pepper, ↑peppercorn

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noun [noncount]
: a food seasoning that is made by grinding the dried berries of an Indian plant after removing the hard, black covers on the seeds — compare black pepper

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ˌwhite ˈpepper 7 [white pepper] noun uncountable
a greyish-brown powder made from dried berries (called ↑peppercorns ), used to give flavour to food

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  • white pepper — n [U] a white powder made from the crushed inside of a ↑peppercorn, which gives a slightly spicy taste to food →↑black pepper …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • white pepper — noun uncount pepper in the form of a white powder …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • white pepper — n a condiment that consists of the fruit of an Indian plant of the genus Piper (P. nigrum) ground after the black husk has been removed …   Medical dictionary

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  • white pepper — N UNCOUNT White pepper is pepper which has been made from the dried insides of the fruits of the pepper plant …   English dictionary

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