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1. Add pepper to
   "pepper the soup"
    
2. Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   - pelt

1. Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
   - common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum
    
2. Any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
   - capsicum, capsicum pepper plant
    
3. Pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
   - peppercorn
    
4. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

Derived forms: peppers, peppered, peppering

See also: peppery

Type of: assail, attack, bush, flavorer [US], flavoring [US], flavourer [Brit, Cdn], flavouring [Brit, Cdn], pepper vine, seasoner, seasoning, shrub, solanaceous vegetable, spice, spice up, true pepper, zest

Part of: Capsicum, genus Capsicum, genus Piper, Piper

Encyclopedia: Pepper Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz