Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
pepper (the vegetable or spice) or some aspect of it;peppery .
Etymologies
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pepper + -like
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Examples
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The back garden was dense with mulberry trees, and the front garden had a thick vine trellis, a grove of oleander, a paper mulberry, and a huge nameless tree whose pepperlike fruit grew in little clusters inside the folds of its boat-shaped brown and crispy leaves.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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The back garden was dense with mulberry trees, and the front garden had a thick vine trellis, a grove of oleander, a paper mulberry, and a huge nameless tree whose pepperlike fruit grew in little clusters inside the folds of its boat-shaped brown and crispy leaves.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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