pepper

/pˈɛpɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. add pepper to
   “pepper the soup”
2. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   “pelt the speaker with questions”

noun

1. climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
2. any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
3. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
4. sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

Synonyms for pepper

• pelt
• common pepper
• black pepper
• white pepper
• Madagascar pepper
• Piper nigrum
• capsicum
• capsicum pepper plant
• peppercorn

Words that rhyme with pepper

• stepper
• leper
• clepper
• colpepper
• hepper
• klepper
• knepper
• lepper
• lepre
• peper
• repr
• shepper
• tepper