PIPERINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piperine mean? 

• PIPERINE (noun)
  The noun PIPERINE has 1 sense:

1. derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper

  Familiarity information: PIPERINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPERINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

piperin; piperine

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

chemical irritant (a substance producing irritation)

Holonyms ("piperine" is a substance of...):

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)

 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)