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Definition of Pepper family
1. Noun. Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Piperales, Piperales
Member holonyms: Genus Piper, Piper, Genus Peperomia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pepper Family
Literary usage of Pepper family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... pepper family. Herbs (or the cultivated species sometimes woody) with alternate
or opposite, ..."
2. Materia medica and therapeutics: Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Douglas Fergusson Phillips (1874)
"Spiritus: 10 to 50 minims or more. PIPER ACEM. THE pepper family. AN order composed
of about 600 species of herbaceous and ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... are derived from the same plant, Piper nigrum, a member of the pepper family
... Red pepper is not a member of the pepper family, belonging, rather, ..."
4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... pepper family. Herbs (or the cultivated species sometimes woody) with alternate
... pepper family."
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