white pepper

Questions about white pepper

What does white pepper mean?

white pepper means "climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for white pepper?

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

white pepper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.