Common Pepper (Noun)
Meaning
Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The drying and grinding of common pepper makes it useful as a spice.
- Common pepper is a climbers vine that thrives in India and Southeast Asia.
- In 2018, Vietnam was the world's largest producer and exporter of common pepper.
- Dried common pepper berries, also called peppercorns, have been used for centuries as a flavouring agent and medicine.
- There are two main species used as spices, the green berries of common pepper and the black peppercorns from fully ripe berries.