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pepper pot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pepper \Pep"per\, n. [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L. piper, fr. Gr. ?, ?, akin to Skr. pippala, pippali.]
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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.
(Bot.) 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.
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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.
The spike of berries of Piper longum, an East Indian shrub.
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The root of Piper methysticum (syn. Macropiper methysticum) of the family Piperaceae. See Kava.
Malaguetta pepper, 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 Pepper 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper 2 A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper. n. 1 A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper 2 A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.
WordNet
n. a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings [syn: Philadelphia pepper pot]
a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper [syn: pepper shaker, pepper box]
Usage examples of "pepper pot".
The one that looked like a pepper pot just skidded down it, and fell over at the bottom.
Silas asked the rat, who was staring at the pepper pot and for once seemed lost for words.
If further inspissated by boiling, and sweetened in the sun, it is known as casareep, and is employed as a flavouring, especially in British Guiana, where it appears in almost every dish, and in the West Indies, where it is the foundation of the celebrated pepper pot.
She stood on the turf, just in from the street, across the diamond from where Francis danced and chattered as the third-base pepper pot.
The pepper pot rasped on Bush's palate and inflamed his stomach, making the wine doubly grateful when he drank it.
That evening, as he lay tucked up in bed, his mother came upstairs with a bowl of Philadelphia pepper pot soup and a plate of crackers.