pepper
(noun) sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
pepper, peppercorn
(noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant
(noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum
(noun) climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
pepper, pelt
(verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; “pelt the speaker with questions”
pepper
(verb) add pepper to; “pepper the soup”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Pepper (plural Peppers)
An occupational surname for a seller of pepper.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pepper is the 3178th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11374 individuals. Pepper is most common among White (89.09%) individuals.
pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
(uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
(UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
(cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
• (fruit of the capsicum)
(spicy): chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper
(mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper, capsicum
pepper (third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered)
(transitive) To add pepper to.
(transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
(transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
(transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
Source: Wiktionary
Pep"per, n. Etym: [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L. piper, fr. Gr. pippala, pippali.]
1. A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
Note: Common, or black, pepper is made from the whole berry, dried just before maturity; white pepper is made from the ripe berry after the outer skin has been removed by maceration and friction. It has less of the peculiar properties of the plant than the black pepper. Pepper is used in medicine as a carminative stimulant.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
3. Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.
Note: The term pepper has been extended to various other fruits and plants, more or less closely resembling the true pepper, esp. to the common varieties of Capsicum. See Capsicum, and the Phrases, below. African pepper, the Guinea pepper. See under Guinea.
– Cayenne pepper. See under Cayenne.
– Chinese pepper, the spicy berries of the Xanthoxylum piperitum, a species of prickly ash found in China and Japan.
– Guinea pepper. See under Guinea, and Capsicum.
– Jamaica pepper. See Allspice.
– Long pepper. (a) The spike of berries of Piper longum, an East Indian shrub. (b) The root of Piper, or Macropiper, methysticum. See Kava.
– Malaguetta, or Meleguetta, pepper, the aromatic seeds of the Amomum Melegueta, an African plant of the Ginger family. They are sometimes used to flavor beer, etc., under the name of grains of Paradise.
– Red pepper. See Capsicum.
– Sweet pepper bush (Bot.), an American shrub (Clethra alnifolia), with racemes of fragrant white flowers; -- called also white alder.
– Pepper box or caster, a small box or bottle, with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling ground pepper on food, etc.
– Pepper corn. See in the Vocabulary.
– Pepper elder (Bot.), a West Indian name of several plants of the Pepper family, species of Piper and Peperomia.
– Pepper moth (Zoöl.), a European moth (Biston betularia) having white wings covered with small black specks.
– Pepper pot, a mucilaginous soup or stew of vegetables and cassareep, much esteemed in the West Indies.
– Pepper root. (Bot.). See Coralwort.
– pepper sauce, a condiment for the table, made of small red peppers steeped in vinegar.
– Pepper tree (Bot.), an aromatic tree (Drimys axillaris) of the Magnolia family, common in New Zealand. See Peruvian mastic tree, under Mastic.
Pep"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peppered; p. pr. & vb. n. Peppering.]
1. To sprinkle or season with pepper.
2. Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds. "I have peppered two of them." "I am peppered, I warrant, for this world." Shak.
Pep"per, v. i.
Definition: To fire numerous shots (at).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 January 2025
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee press is 230 cm (7 ft 6 in) in height and 72 cm (2 ft 4 in) in diameter and was created by Salzillo Tea and Coffee (Spain) in Murcia, Spain, in February 2007. The cafetière consists of a stainless steel container, a filtering piston, and a superior lid.
