ENGLISH: pepper - CREOLE: piman



Overview of noun pepper



The noun pepper has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)



1. pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum -- (climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam)

2. capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant -- (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)

3. pepper, peppercorn -- (pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground)

4. pepper -- (sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum)



Overview of verb pepper



The verb pepper has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (1) pepper -- (add pepper to; "pepper the soup")

2. (1) pepper, pelt -- (attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions")

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