noun
- Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.
- synonyms: pepper, common pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum
- Pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on. .
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