common pepper

Questions about common pepper

What does common pepper mean?

common pepper means "climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam".

What is another word for common pepper?

Close synonyms include pepper, black 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 common pepper a common word?

common pepper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.