peppers

Meanings

Noun

• climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
• any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
• pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
• sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
• plural of pepper

Verb

• add pepper to
• attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
• third-person singular simple present indicative of pepper

Synonyms

black pepper, capsicum, capsicum pepper plant, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pelt, pepper, peppercorn, Piper nigrum, white pepper