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Noun: Piperaceae
  1. Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
    - family Piperaceae, pepper family

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Piperales, Piperales

Encyclopedia: Piperaceae