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Definition of Long pepper
1. Noun. Slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas.
Group relationships: Genus Piper, Piper
Generic synonyms: Pepper Vine, True Pepper
2. Noun. Plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red.
Terms within: Chile, Chili, Chili Pepper, Chilli, Chilly
Terms within: Cayenne, Cayenne Pepper, Red Pepper
Group relationships: Capsicum, Genus Capsicum
Generic synonyms: Capsicum, Capsicum Pepper Plant, Pepper
Definition of Long pepper
1. Noun. The flowering vine Piper longum in the genus Piper (pepper) of family Piperaceae, cultivated for its choracteristically long fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Pepper
Literary usage of Long pepper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"long pepper, according to English analysts, has been used to a ... long pepper
contains, as a rule, less than half the amount of piperin that true pepper ..."
2. The Analyst (1887)
"And it is difficult, if not impossible, to clean long pepper before grinding,
... The ground long pepper contains not only sand, but more woody fibre than ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... (i) the holy fig-tree, (2) long pepper; pippali, the fruit of the holy
fig-tree (and, presumably, of the pepper- tree) ; Benfey, p. 552. ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"long pepper is legitimately used in pickles, but in the ground state is not a
... 69) the presence of long pepper in ground pepper may be recognised by the ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"long pepper is legitimately used in pickles, but in the ground state is not a
... 69) the presence of long pepper in ground pepper may be recognised by the ..."
6. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"When long pepper, from which the husk particles have been sifted out, is added
to white ... The woody fibre in ground long pepper is always considerable. ..."
7. Spices by Henry Nicholas Ridley (1912)
"CHAPTER IX long pepper THERE are two distinct kinds of pepper known as ...
The former may be called Indian long pepper, the latter Javanese long pepper. ..."
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