| 单词 | pepper plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspepper plant pepper plant n. any plant yielding pepper (sense 1a) or similar pungent spice, or bearing capsicums. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > peppercorn plant pepperOE pepper plant1611 pepperbush1672 pepper vine1783 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poyvrette,..some also call so, the Guinnie Pepper plant. 1790 Encycl. Brit. 767/2 The pepper plant flourishes..on the Malabar coast. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1126 T[asmannia] aromatica... The colonists call it the Pepper-plant, and use its little black pungent fruits as a substitute for pepper. 1991 Traveller Spring 38/3 The drink was a mild narcotic, the active ingredient of which is obtained from the ground roots of the pepper plant Piper methysticum. < as lemmas |
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