Definition of Pepper family

1. Noun. Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets.

Exact synonyms: Family Piperaceae, Piperaceae
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Piperales, Piperales
Member holonyms: Genus Piper, Piper, Genus Peperomia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pepper Family

peponida
peponidas
peponium
peponiums
pepos
pepped
pepper
pepper-and-salt
pepper-spray
pepper Jack
pepper and salt fundus
pepper box
pepper bush
pepper dulse
pepper dulses
pepper family (current term)
pepper grinder
pepper mill
pepper mills
pepper pot
pepper pots
pepper root
pepper sauce
pepper shaker
pepper shakers
pepper shrub
pepper spray
pepper steak
pepper syndrome

Literary usage of Pepper family

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... pepper family. Herbs (or the cultivated species sometimes woody) with alternate or opposite, ..."

2. Materia medica and therapeutics: Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Douglas Fergusson Phillips (1874)
"Spiritus: 10 to 50 minims or more. PIPER ACEM. THE pepper family. AN order composed of about 600 species of herbaceous and ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... are derived from the same plant, Piper nigrum, a member of the pepper family ... Red pepper is not a member of the pepper family, belonging, rather, ..."

4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... pepper family. Herbs (or the cultivated species sometimes woody) with alternate ... pepper family."

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