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Definition of Piper nigrum
1. Noun. Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.
Exact synonyms: Black Pepper, Common Pepper, Madagascar Pepper, Pepper, White Pepper
Terms within: Pepper, Peppercorn
Group relationships: Genus Piper, Piper
Generic synonyms: Pepper Vine, True Pepper
Terms within: Piperin, Piperine
Terms within: Pepper, Peppercorn
Group relationships: Genus Piper, Piper
Generic synonyms: Pepper Vine, True Pepper
Terms within: Piperin, Piperine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piper Nigrum
Literary usage of Piper nigrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"Both the black and the white peppercorns of commerce are berries of piper nigrum
L., a climbing perennial indigenous to Malabar and ..."
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