pepper


Definition: Meaning of, pepper in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈpɛpə /

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pepper peppers
  1. [uncountable] a powder that is used to add a hot taste to food
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  2. [countable] a hollow red, green, or yellow vegetable, eaten either raw or cooked with other food [=  bell pepper American English]
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
pepper peppered peppered
Present Participle Third Person Singular
peppering peppers
[transitive]
  1. [usually passive] if something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it
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  2. if bullets pepper something, they hit it several times
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  3. pepper somebody with questions American English to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other
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  4. to add pepper to food
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pepper used in phrases

  • Brazilian pepper tree (noun)
    1. small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen
  • Dr. Pepper
    1. a type of sweet, non-alcoholic drink with bubbles
  • Guinea pepper (noun)
    1. west African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds
    2. tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine
  • Java pepper (noun)
    1. tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
  • Madagascar pepper (noun)
    1. peppercorns climbing plant having dark red berries when fully ripe; from southern India and Sri Lanka, also naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
  • Philadelphia pepper pot (noun)
    1. a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings
  • bell pepper (noun)
    1. American English a hollow red, green, or yellow vegetable [=  pepper British English]
  • betel pepper (noun)
    1. seed of the betel palm asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut by southeast Asians
  • bird pepper (noun)
    1. plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
  • black pepper (noun)
    1. pepper made from crushed seeds from which the dark outer covering has not been removed [↪  white pepper]
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