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Noun: pepper family
  1. Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
    "Black pepper and kava both belong to the pepper family";
    - Piperaceae, family Piperaceae

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Piperales, Piperales