pepper family

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   tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets

   SynonymsPiperaceaefamily Piperaceae

   Broaderdicot family

   Part ofPiperales

Questions about pepper family

What does pepper family mean?

pepper family means "tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets".

What is another word for pepper family?

Close synonyms include Piperaceae, family Piperaceae. 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 pepper family a common word?

pepper family 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.