pepper vine
Noun
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Any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper (synset 113170079)
is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surfacesubtypes:
- 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: genus piper, piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubssame as: true pepper
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