Lexic.us

Definition of Pepper tree

1. Noun. Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.

2. Noun. Small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pepper Tree

pepper family pepper grinder pepper mill pepper mills pepper pot pepper pots pepper root pepper sauce pepper shaker pepper shakers

pepper shrub pepper spray pepper steak pepper syndrome pepper tree (current term) pepper vine pepperbox pepperboxes pepperbrand peppercorn

peppercorn rent peppercorns peppered peppered steak pepperer pepperers pepperidge

Literary usage of Pepper tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"A pepper tree Bower WHEN you were a youngster and read "The Swiss Family ... During the years when the pepper tree was growing he coaxed the limbs into ..."

2. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"369) that the "Century defines the pepper tree—which I have seen in its habitat in ... It merely says that the pepper-tree is "also called Chili pepper. ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The pepper tree or false pepper grows 20 ft. or more high, with alternate unequally pinnate leaves, which have about 10 pairs of serrate leaflets and a ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"CALIFORNIAS PEPPER-TREE. Figs. 2265, 22KG. Evergreen tree, 20 ft. and more, with rounded ... Next to an oleander thi; black scale loves a Pepper-tree. ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Now the pepper-tree is under a ban, and justly so. Next to oleander the pepper-tree is most subject to black scale. Hence the pepper-trees, being large and ..."

6. To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California by Emma Hildreth Adams (1888)
"It includes the The pepper tree. hotels, stores, newspaper offices, and all kinds of shops. But Arlington's street, par excellence, is Magnolia Avenue, ..."

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