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Black pepper   /blæk pˈɛpər/   Listen
Black pepper

noun
1.
Climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam.  Synonyms: common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper.
2.
Pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on.






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"Black pepper" Quotes from Famous Books



... fruit. Salad dressings should be lemon or lime juice, very small quantities of olive oil, and herbs. No salt, soy sauce nor black pepper. Cayenne can ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... halfpenny per day. The meat dinners consisted of a stew of from a half to three quarters of a lb. of leg of beef, the meat costing 3 1/2d. per lb., which, with sliced potatoes and a little onion, and as much water as just covered all, with a sprinkle of salt and black pepper, by the time I returned to dinner at half-past six furnished a repast in every respect as good as my appetite. For breakfast I had coffee and a due proportion of quartern loaf. After the first year of my employment under Mr. Maudslay, my wages were raised to 15s. a week, and I then, but not till ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... large oysters, half a pint of vinegar, half a pint of white wine, four spoonfuls of salt, six spoonfuls of whole black pepper and a little mace. Strain the liquor, and add the above-named ingredients. Let boil up once, and pour, while boiling hot, over the oysters. After these have stood ten minutes pour off the liquor, which, as well as the oysters, should then be allowed to ...
— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa

... products: black pepper, tropical fruits and vegetables, coconuts, cassava (tapioca), betel nuts, sweet potatoes; ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... exceptions to these remarks, for both the shape of their heads and growth of wool are peculiar; the latter, for instance, springs from the scalp in tufts with bare spaces between, and when the crop is short, resembles a number of black pepper-corns stuck on the skin, and very unlike the thick frizzly masses which cover the heads of the Balonda and Maravi. With every disposition to pay due deference to the opinions of those who have made ethnology their special study, I have felt myself unable to believe that the exaggerated ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone



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