black pepper

Questions about black pepper

What does black pepper mean?

black pepper means "climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black pepper?

Close synonyms include pepper, common pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black pepper a common word?

black pepper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.