true pepper

Questions about true pepper

What does true pepper mean?

true pepper means "any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper".

What is another word for true pepper?

Close synonyms include pepper vine. 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 true pepper a common word?

true 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.