Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any of the plants called
pepper .
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Examples
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Ritter, in the fifth volume of his Geography, dilates on the cultivation of the pepper-plant, which is of indigenous growth.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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The _kava_, a variety of the pepper-plant, grows to more than six feet in height, and the specimen we had found thrust above our heads its many jointed branches rustling with large, flat leaves.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Six dogs were thrown in, and the roots and stalks of the prairie plants, together with salt, and bunches of the wild pepper-plant, and of swamp mustard, were added for seasoning.
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Here long tendrils of the black pepper-plant wound themselves up the thick tree-stems, here the cardamon and the ginger flourished, here the pretty cinnamon, camphor, cinchona, nutmeg, and cocoa trees made a splendid show, here I saw a newly gathered harvest of vanilla.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Certain it is that they called the brandy, which was offered them on the _Solide_, by the name of the pepper-plant.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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The stem of the pepper-plant entwines round its support to
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The berries of the pepper-plant grow in spikes of from twenty to thirty, and are, when ripe, of a bright-red colour.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The stem of the pepper-plant entwines round its support to
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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We will here say something of the manner of the growth of the pepper-plant.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The berries of the pepper-plant grow in spikes of from twenty to thirty, and are, when ripe, of a bright-red colour.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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