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Piper nigrum
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Piper nigrum - 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, pepper, 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 |
EncyclopediaSeeblack pepperPiper nigrum
A woody vine native to Asia, rich in piperine and piperidine; BP’s dried unripe fruit is used in Chinese herbal medicine as a GItonic, and for constipation, food poisoning, obesity, sinusitis, and vomiting; it has been used in western herbal medicine as a cardiostimulant and to enhance renal functionPiper nigrum
Synonyms for Piper nigrumnoun climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripeSynonyms- black pepper
- common pepper
- Madagascar pepper
- pepper
- white pepper
Related Words- peppercorn
- pepper
- genus Piper
- Piper
- pepper vine
- true pepper
- piperin
- piperine
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