pepper : | |||||||||||||
sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" add pepper to; "pepper the soup" any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers |
|||||||||||||
|