pepper family
noun
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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How to use pepper family in a sentence
It is made from the roots of a shrub belonging to the pepper family.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania | Jewett Castello GilsonPiperace (pepper family), so called by the inhabitants of Polynesia, who make an intoxicating drink out of it.
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