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Definition of Common pepper
1. Noun. Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.
Terms within: Pepper, Peppercorn
Group relationships: Genus Piper, Piper
Generic synonyms: Pepper Vine, True Pepper
Terms within: Piperin, Piperine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Pepper
Literary usage of Common pepper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"And whilst the use of Betel Pepper, to which we shall next allude, is confined
almost wholly to the Eastern nations, the common pepper is an article of ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"They are used in pickling and for culinary purposes, also in medicine for the
same purposes as common pepper. They »re generally reputed to be more pungent ..."
3. A practical treatise on the choice and cookery of fish by William Hughes (1854)
"... taken from the oysters, the whole being bound together by means of an egg
beaten up, and being previously seasoned with cayenne, common pepper, salt, ..."
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