pepper

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Likewise, no one factor composes Margaret's bell pepper, but rather the final form of the pepper is the result of an ensemble or assembly of heterogeneous factors each contributing or making their differences.

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  1. noun Black pepper.
  2. noun Any of several plants of the genus Piper, as cubeb, betel, and kava.
  3. noun Any of several tropical American, cultivated forms of Capsicum frutescens or C. annuum, having podlike, many-seeded, variously colored berries.

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  1. Middle English peper, from Old English pipor, from Latin piper, from Greek peperi, of Indic origin; akin to Prakrit pipparī, from Sanskrit pippalī, from pippalam, pipal.

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  1. from Middle English peper, pepir, piper, from Anglo-Saxon pipor, piper = OFries. piper = Dutch peper = Middle Low German pepper, peper = Old High German pfeffar, phefer, Middle High German pheffer, pfeffer, German pfeffer = Icelandic piparr = Swedish peppar = Danish peber = French poivre = Italian pepe, pevere, from Latin piper = Old Bulgarian Pĭprŭ = Servian papar (also biber, from Turkish) = Bohemian peprzh = Polish pieprz = Russian peretsŭ= Lithuanian pipiras = Lettish pipars = Hungarian paprika = Turkish biber, from Greek πίπερι, πέπερι, pepper, from Sanskrit pippala, the long pepper, also the Sacred fig-tree (peepul); cf. pippali, the fruit of the fig-tree. Cf. Persian pulpul, Arabic fulful, pepper.
  2. = D. Middle Low German peperen = Middle High German phefferōn, pfefferen, German pfeffern = Icelandic pipra = Swedish peppra = Danish pebre; from the noun.
 

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