genus piper

1. Type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs (synset 113169822)
   is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • 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
   belongs to: family piperaceae, pepper family, piperaceae - tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
   same as: piper

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