pepper
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
Other meanings
A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
Kinds of pepper
- sweet pepper
- hot pepper
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "piper".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pepper” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.