melagueta pepper

What does melagueta pepper mean?

melagueta pepper means "West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds".

What is another word for melagueta pepper?

Close synonyms include grains of paradise, Guinea grains, Guinea pepper, Aframomum melegueta. 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 melagueta pepper a common word?

melagueta 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for melagueta pepper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.