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

It is made by folding dried fruits, nuts and pastes into a betel leaf, a member of the pepper family.

From New York Times

It is made from the roots of a shrub belonging to the pepper family.

From Project Gutenberg

The areca nut, the seed from a kind of palm, pear-shaped, and resembling a nutmeg, is mixed with quick-lime and wrapped in a betel-leaf, which grows on a vine belonging to the pepper family.

From Project Gutenberg