piper nigrum

Questions about piper nigrum

What does piper nigrum mean?

piper nigrum 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 piper nigrum?

Close synonyms include pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper. 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 piper nigrum a common word?

piper nigrum 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.