BLACK PEPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black pepper mean? 

• BLACK PEPPER (noun)
  The noun BLACK PEPPER has 2 senses:

1. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam

2. pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on

  Familiarity information: BLACK PEPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK PEPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black pepper; common pepper; Madagascar pepper; pepper; Piper nigrum; white pepper

Hypernyms ("black pepper" is a kind of...):

pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)

Meronyms (parts of "black pepper"):

pepper; peppercorn (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)

Meronyms (substance of "black pepper"):

piperin; piperine (derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper)

Holonyms ("black pepper" is a member of...):

genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("black pepper" is a kind of...):

pepper; peppercorn (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)

 Context examples 

A standardized extract containing the active alkaloid piperine, derived from the fruit of the plant Piper nigrum (black pepper) and/or the plant Piper longum L. (long pepper), with thermogenic properties.

(Piperine Extract (Standardized), NCI Thesaurus)