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Definition of True pepper
1. Noun. Any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper.
Generic synonyms: Vine
Group relationships: Genus Piper, Piper
Specialized synonyms: Black Pepper, Common Pepper, Madagascar Pepper, Pepper, Piper Nigrum, White Pepper, Long Pepper, Piper Longum, Betel, Betel Pepper, Piper Betel, Cubeb, Cubeb Vine, Java Pepper, Piper Cubeba
Lexicographical Neighbors of True Pepper
Literary usage of True pepper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"Long pepper contains, as a rule, less than half the amount of piperin that true
pepper does, and rather more starch than black pepper. ..."
2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"Hence it is difficult, if not impossible, to clean long pepper before grinding,
in the manner readily practised with true pepper. As it is not possible to ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"Its flavour and its smell on warming preclude its use in an unmixed state, and
its unacknowledged addition to true pepper is clearly an adulteration (see ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"Its flavour and its smell on warming preclude its use in an unmixed state, and
its unacknowledged addition to true pepper is clearly an adulteration (see ..."
5. Campbell's Tea, Coffee and Spice Manual, a Comprehensive Trade Manual on by Lute E. Campbell (1920)
"It does not possess the fine flavor or strength of true pepper, and its addition
is rated as adulteration. Its principal use is for pickles. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It is more correctly termed " pimento" or " allspice," as it is not a true pepper. ..."
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