pepper family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.

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Example Sentences

"They did make sambal using native ingredients like andaliman pepper, which comes from the Szechuan pepper family," Lee explains.

From Salon • May 10, 2022

The ban included Sichuan pepper, since the Zanthoxylum genus and its numerous edible species of Sichuan pepper are not actually in the pepper family but are a form of citrus.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2017

The Magnoliidae group is comprised of magnolia trees, laurels, water lilies, and the pepper family.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

One of 2,000 members of the extended pepper family, it grows principally in the South Pacific, where it is harvested like any other cash crop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Macropiper methysticum.—A plant of the pepper family, which furnishes the root called Ava by the Polynesians.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William