true pepper

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1.true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piperpepper vinevine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surfacegenus Piper, Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubsblack 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 Assamlong pepper, Piper longum - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayasbetel, betel pepper, Piper betel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asianscubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb - tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits