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Words people most associate with “pepper”:

  1. salt,
  2. doctor,
  3. hot,
  4. black,
  5. spray

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Noun (4 meanings)

1. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.

pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum

pepper is a type of:
pepper is a member of:
  • Piper, genus Piper (noun) - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
pepper is made from:
parts of pepper:
  • pepper, peppercorn (noun) - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India

2. any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers.

capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant

pepper is a type of:
  • shrub, bush (noun) - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
types of pepper:
pepper is a member of:
  • genus Capsicum, Capsicum (noun) - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
pepper is made from:
  • capsaicin (noun) - colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum
parts of pepper:
  • pepper (noun) - sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

3. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground.

pepper, peppercorn

pepper is a type of:
types of pepper:
  • black pepper (noun) - pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on
  • white pepper (noun) - pepper ground from husked peppercorns
pepper is a part of:
pepper is derivationally related to:
  • to pepper (verb) - add pepper to
  • peppery (adjective) - having the piquant burning taste of peppers

4. sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum.

pepper

pepper is a type of:
types of pepper:
  • hot pepper (noun) - any of various pungent capsicum fruits
  • sweet pepper (noun) - large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong
pepper is a part of:

Verb (2 meanings)

1. add pepper to.

to pepper

Example:
  • “pepper the soup”
to pepper is a way to:
to pepper is derivationally related to:
  • pepper, peppercorn (noun) - pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India
Domain of synset - TOPIC:

2. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles.

to pepper, pelt

Example:
  • “pelt the speaker with questions”
to pepper is a way to:
to pepper is derivationally related to:
  • pelter (noun) - a thrower of missiles
to pepper entails:
  • to throw (verb) - propel through the air