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P0177700 (pĕp′ər)n.1. a. A perennial climbing vine (Piper nigrum) native to India, widely cultivated for its long slender spikes of small fruit.b. A pungent black or white spice produced from the dried fruit of this plant, used as a condiment.2. Any of several other plants of the genus Piper, such as cubeb, betel, and kava.3. a. Any of several tropical American, cultivated varieties of capsicum, having podlike, many-seeded, fruit.b. The podlike fruit of any of these plants, varying in size, shape, color, and degree of pungency, with the milder types including the bell pepper and pimiento, and the more pungent types including the habanero.4. Any of various condiments made from the more pungent varieties of capsicum, such as cayenne pepper, tabasco pepper, and chili. Also called hot pepper.5. Any of various other plants producing pungent fruits, such as the Szechuan pepper.6. Baseball A warm-up exercise in which players standing a short distance from a batter field the ball and toss it to the batter, who hits each toss back to the fielders. Also called pepper game.tr.v. pep·pered, pep·per·ing, pep·pers 1. To season or sprinkle with pepper.2. a. To sprinkle liberally; scatter: peppered the confetti over the street.b. To strew something over: "Large splinters and chunks of timber peppered the ground" (John Guy).3. To strike with small missiles or gunfire. See Synonyms at barrage².4. To beset repeatedly, as with questions or requests.5. To distribute certain features, such as witty remarks or quotations, throughout (a discourse).

[Middle English peper, from Old English pipor, from Latin piper, long pepper, black pepper, from Greek peperi, of Indic origin; akin to Prakrit pipparī, long pepper, from Sanskrit pippalī, from pippalam, berry, fruit of the pipal tree, of unknown origin.]

pepper

(ˈpɛpə) n1. (Plants) a woody climbing plant, Piper nigrum, of the East Indies, having small black berry-like fruits: family Piperaceae2. (Plants) the dried fruit of this plant, which is ground to produce a sharp hot condiment. See also black pepper, white pepper3. (Plants) any of various other plants of the genus Piper. See cubeb, betel, kava4. (Plants) Also called: capsicum any of various tropical plants of the solanaceous genus Capsicum, esp C. frutescens, the fruits of which are used as a vegetable and a condiment. See also bird pepper, sweet pepper, red pepper, cayenne pepper5. (Plants) the fruit of any of these capsicums, which has a mild or pungent taste6. (Cookery) the condiment made from the fruits of any of these plants7. (Plants) any of various similar but unrelated plants, such as water peppervb (tr) 8. (Cookery) to season with pepper9. to sprinkle liberally; dot: his prose was peppered with alliteration. 10. to pelt with small missiles[Old English piper, from Latin, from Greek peperi; compare French poivre, Old Norse piparr]

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n. 1. a. the pungent dried berries of the tropical climbing shrub Piper nigrum, used whole, crushed, or ground as a condiment. b. any plant of the genus Piper, of the pepper family, several of which yield similar pungent berries. 2. a. any of several plants belonging to the genus Capsicum, of the nightshade family, esp. C. annuum and C. frutescens. b. the usu. green or red fruit of any of these plants, ranging from mild to very pungent in flavor. c. the pungent seeds of several varieties of C. annuum or C. frutescens, used ground or whole as a condiment. v.t. 3. to season with or as if with pepper. 4. to sprinkle or cover, as if with pepper; dot. 5. to pelt with or as if with shot or missiles. [before 1000; Middle English peper, piper, Old English pipor (> Old Norse pipari, piparr) < Latin piper < Greek péperi; compare Old Frisian piper, Dutch peper, Old High German pfeffar (German Pfeffer), all perhaps < a common West Germanic borrowing < Latin]

pepper

Past participle: peppered
Gerund: peppering

Imperative
pepper
pepper

Present
I pepper
you pepper
he/she/it peppers
we pepper
you pepper
they pepper

Preterite
I peppered
you peppered
he/she/it peppered
we peppered
you peppered
they peppered

Present Continuous
I am peppering
you are peppering
he/she/it is peppering
we are peppering
you are peppering
they are peppering

Present Perfect
I have peppered
you have peppered
he/she/it has peppered
we have peppered
you have peppered
they have peppered

Past Continuous
I was peppering
you were peppering
he/she/it was peppering
we were peppering
you were peppering
they were peppering

Past Perfect
I had peppered
you had peppered
he/she/it had peppered
we had peppered
you had peppered
they had peppered

Future
I will pepper
you will pepper
he/she/it will pepper
we will pepper
you will pepper
they will pepper

Future Perfect
I will have peppered
you will have peppered
he/she/it will have peppered
we will have peppered
you will have peppered
they will have peppered

Future Continuous
I will be peppering
you will be peppering
he/she/it will be peppering
we will be peppering
you will be peppering
they will be peppering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been peppering
you have been peppering
he/she/it has been peppering
we have been peppering
you have been peppering
they have been peppering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been peppering
you will have been peppering
he/she/it will have been peppering
we will have been peppering
you will have been peppering
they will have been peppering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been peppering
you had been peppering
he/she/it had been peppering
we had been peppering
you had been peppering
they had been peppering

Conditional
I would pepper
you would pepper
he/she/it would pepper
we would pepper
you would pepper
they would pepper

Past Conditional
I would have peppered
you would have peppered
he/she/it would have peppered
we would have peppered
you would have peppered
they would have peppered

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pepper - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assamblack pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepperpeppercorn, pepper - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or groundgenus Piper, Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubspepper vine, true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piperpiperin, piperine - derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper
	2.	pepper - any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing pepperscapsicum, capsicum pepper plantpepper - sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicumgenus Capsicum, Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppersCapsicum annuum conoides, cone pepper - plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamentalCapsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper - plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually redbell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant - plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppersCapsicum annuum cerasiforme, cherry pepper - plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruitsbird pepper, Capsicum baccatum, Capsicum frutescens baccatum - plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppersCapsicum frutescens, hot pepper, tabasco pepper, tabasco plant - plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot saucebush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stemscapsaicin - colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno
	3.	pepper - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or groundpeppercornflavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner - something added to food primarily for the savor it impartsblack pepper - pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks onwhite pepper - pepper ground from husked peppercornsblack 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
	4.	pepper - sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicumsolanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersiconsweet pepper - large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong; commonly used in saladshot pepper - any of various pungent capsicum fruitscapsicum, capsicum pepper plant, pepper - any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
Verb	1.	pepper - add pepper to; "pepper the soup"cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"spice up, zest, spice - add herbs or spices to
	2.	pepper - attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"peltattack, assail - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"

pepper

noun1. seasoning, flavour, spice Season the mixture with salt and pepper.verb1. pelt, hit, shower, scatter, blitz, riddle, rake, bombard, assail, strafe, rain down on He was peppered with shrapnel.2. sprinkle, spot, scatter, dot, stud, fleck, intersperse, speck, spatter, freckle, stipple, bespatter The road was peppered with glass.

pepper

verb1. To mark with many small spots:bespeckle, besprinkle, dapple, dot, fleck, freckle, mottle, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple.2. To direct a barrage at:barrage, bombard, cannonade, fusillade, shower.

Translations

胡椒粉辣椒辣椒植物加胡椒粉投掷

pepper

(ˈpepə) noun1. the dried, powdered berries of a certain plant, used for seasoning food. white/black pepper; This soup has too much pepper in it.胡椒粉2. the plant bearing these berries. a pepper plant.胡椒3. any of several red, yellow, or green, hollow seed-containing fruits used as food. red peppers stuffed with rice.辣椒4. any of the plants which bear these. 辣椒植物 verb1. to put pepper in or on (some food). You don't have to pepper the soup.加胡椒粉2. (with with) to throw, fire etc many, usually small, objects at (someone). He peppered them with bullets.投掷ˈpeppery adjective1. (of food) containing a lot of pepper. The soup is too peppery.辣的2. easily made angry. a peppery old man.易怒的ˈpeppercorn noun the berry of the pepper plant. 胡椒子ˈpepper-mill noun a small container in which peppercorns are ground into a powder. 磨胡椒子的小罐ˈpeppermint noun1. a flavouring taken from a type of plant and used in sweets etc. 薄荷2. (sometimes abbreviated to mint) a sweet flavoured with peppermint. The little boy had a bag of peppermints.薄荷油

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pepper

pepper,

name for the fruits of several unrelated Old and New World plants used as spices or vegetables or in medicine.

Old World (True) Peppers

Black pepper (Piper nigrum), the true pepper, is economically the most important species of the pantropical pepper family (Piperaceae). It is native to Java, whence it was introduced into other tropical countries. A perennial climbing shrub, it bears pea-sized fruits, the peppercorns of commerce. Black pepper, sold whole or ground, is the dried whole fruit; white pepper, made by removing the dark outer hull, has a milder and less biting flavor. Pepper owes its pungency to a derivative of pyridinepyridine
or azine
, C₅H₅N, colorless, flammable, toxic liquid with a putrid odor. It melts at −42&degC; and boils at 115.5&degC;. Chemically, it is a heterocyclic aromatic tertiary amine (see under amino group).
..... Click the link for more information. . In the earliest days of commerce black pepper was a great luxury and a staple article of trade between India and Europe. So high was its price that a few pounds made a royal gift, and the great demand was one of the causes of the search for a sea route to the East. Pepper was valued by Hippocrates for its medicinal properties as a heart and kidney stimulant, and it is still used as a powder or tincture, as a local irritant or liniment, or as a gargle. Many other species of Piper are used medicinally throughout the tropics. The leaves of the betel pepper (P. betle) of the Indomalaysian region are a principal ingredient of the masticatory betelbetel
, masticatory made from slices of betel palm seeds (called betel nuts) smeared onto a betel pepper leaf together with other aromatic flavorings and lime paste and rolled up.
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Cubeb is the name for the berry and for the oil obtained from the unripe berry of the East Indian climbing shrub P. cubeba. The dried fruits are sometimes used as a condiment or are ground and smoked in cigarette form as a catarrh remedy. The oil is used medicinally and also in soap manufacture. The masticated roots of kava, P. methysticum, widely grown in its native Pacific islands, are made into a beverage called kavakava, which contains soporific alkaloids. It is an integral part of religious and social life there. A preparation of kava for commerce, also called kavakava, is sold widely as an herbal remedy for anxiety and insomnia.

New World Peppers

The red peppers, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of America and widely cultivated elsewhere, are various species of Capsicum (of the nightshadenightshade,
common name for the Solanaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and a few trees of warm regions, chiefly tropical America. Many are climbing or creeping types, and rank-smelling foliage is typical of many species.
..... Click the link for more information. family), especially the numerous varieties of C. frutescens. These bushy, woody-stemmed plants were cultivated in South America prior to the time of Columbus, who is said to have taken specimens back to Europe. The "hot" varieties include cayenne pepper, whose dried ground fruit is sold as a spice, and the chili pepper, sold similarly as a powder or in a sauce (one variety is known in the United States by the trade name Tabasco). The chili pepper is much used in cooking in Mexico, where some 200 varieties are known. Paprika (the Hungarian name for red pepper) is a ground spice from a less pungent variety widely cultivated in Central Europe.

The pimiento, or Spanish pepper, with a small fruit used as a condiment and for stuffing olives, and the sweet red and green peppers, with larger fruits used as table vegetables and in salads, are mild types. (The pimiento should not be confused with the pimentopimento
or allspice,
common names for a tree (Pimenta dioica or P. officinalis) of the family Myrtaceae (myrtle family) cultivated in the West Indies for its dried unripe berries, used medicinally and as a spice (also called pimento or allspice).
..... Click the link for more information. or allspice, of the myrtle family.) A variety of C. frutescens with delicate leaves and cherrylike fruit is grown as an ornamental and house plant.

Classification

True pepper is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Piperales, family Piperaceae.

Pepper

(Piper nigrum), a species of plants of the genus Piper of the family Piperaceae. The pepper, a perennial climbing plant, has a semilignified, flexible, slender stalk, measuring 10–12 m long, and adventitious aerial roots, which form on the nodes. The entire leaves are ovate, leathery, and alternate. The small flowers, which are grayish green or white, are gathered into loose inflorescences measuring 7–10 cm long. The fruit, a globose one-seeded drupe, is 3–5 mm in diameter. Originally green in color, the drupe turns red when ripe and black when dried.

The pepper is native to India. It is cultivated in the tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Eastern Africa, and America. In the USSR the plant is grown in hothouses. The cultivated pepper is monoecious; the wild form is dioecious. When propagated by seeds, the pepper flowers in the third or fourth year. Plants that have been propagated vegetatively flower in the fifth or sixth month. The plant flowers only once; the fruit ripens in five to ten months. Peppers graft well; they branch profusely after pruning.

The harvest from one pepper plant is 0.6–1.5 kg. The optimal air temperature is 24°-26°C. The plant, which is not drought resistant, grows best on fertile soils that are moist but drained. As many as 7,500 plants may be planted per hectare (with three seeds in each hole).

The pepper plant is used as a spice in cooking and by the food-processing industry. Its pungency and spiciness depend on its content of the alkaloid pipeline and essential oils.

T. I. KALMYKOVA

What does it mean when you dream about a pepper?

Pepper can represent spiciness, irritation, or warmth—all of which are metaphors for aspects of human interaction. In a dream, pepper could be representing any one of these qualities.

pepper

[′pep·ər] (botany) Any of several warm-season perennials of the genus Capsicum in the order Polemoniales, especially C. annum which is cultivated for its fruit, a many-seeded berry with a thickened integument. (food engineering) Any of various spices and condiments obtained from the fruits of plants of the genus Piper.

pepper

1. a woody climbing plant, Piper nigrum, of the East Indies, having small black berry-like fruits: family Piperaceae 2. the dried fruit of this plant, which is ground to produce a sharp hot condiment 3. any of various other plants of the genus Piper 4. any of various tropical plants of the solanaceous genus Capsicum, esp C. frutescens, the fruits of which are used as a vegetable and a condiment 5. the fruit of any of these capsicums, which has a mild or pungent taste 6. any of various similar but unrelated plants, such as water pepper

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noun seasoning

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verb pelt

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verb to mark with many small spots

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verb to direct a barrage at

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noun climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe

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noun any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

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noun pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India

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noun sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

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verb add pepper to

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verb attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

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