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Noun: white pepper  wIt pe-pu(r)
  1. Pepper ground from husked peppercorns
    "The chef used white pepper in the cream sauce to avoid black specks"
     
  2. Climbing plant having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; from southern India and Sri Lanka, also naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
    "White pepper vines climbed the tall support poles";
    - pepper, common pepper, black pepper, Piper nigrum

Derived forms: white peppers

Type of: pepper, pepper vine, peppercorn, true pepper

Part of: genus Piper, Piper

Encyclopedia: White pepper