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Definition of Pepper shrub
1. Noun. Evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits.
Group relationships: Genus Pseudowintera, Genus Wintera, Pseudowintera, Wintera
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pepper Shrub
Literary usage of Pepper shrub
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"If any person now extant ever called a pepper-tree "pepper shrub" it must have
been reserved to Dr. Smith, AM, LHD, to hear him or her. ..."
2. The Earth, Plants, and Man: Popular Pictures of Nature by Joakim Frederik Schouw, Franz von Kobell, Arthur Henfrey (1852)
"The area of the cultivation of the pepper-shrub is very United. It is not grown
further north than Goa, 15° NL, and on the northern part of the Siamese Gulf ..."
3. English Compound Words and Phrases: A Reference List, with Statement of by Francis Horace Teall (1892)
"... (a plant) pepper=sauce pepper=saxifrage pepper=shrub pepper=tree pepper= vine
pepper=water pepperwood (a tree) ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(Maori, Horopito; qv). 1830. ' Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 65 : " A thick grove of
the pepper-shrub, ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(Maori, Horopito; qv). 1830. ' Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 65 : " A thick grove of
the pepper-shrub, ..."
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