GENUS PIPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Piper mean? 

• GENUS PIPER (noun)
  The noun GENUS PIPER has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs

  Familiarity information: GENUS PIPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PIPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Piper; Piper

Hypernyms ("genus Piper" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Piper"):

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

black pepper; common pepper; Madagascar pepper; pepper; Piper nigrum; white pepper (climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam)

long pepper; Piper longum (slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas)

betel; betel pepper; Piper betel (Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians)

cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba (tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits)

Holonyms ("genus Piper" is a member of...):

family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae (tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets)