PIPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Piper mean? 

• PIPER (noun)
  The noun PIPER has 2 senses:

1. someone who plays the bagpipe

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

  Familiarity information: PIPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who plays the bagpipe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bagpiper; piper

Hypernyms ("piper" is a kind of...):

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piper"):

pipe major (the chief piper in a band of bagpipes)

Derivation:

pipe (play on a pipe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Piper; Piper

Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("Piper" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

The scientific name is Piper methysticum.

(Intoxicating pepper, NCI Dictionary)

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)

Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)