PIPER
\pˈa͡ɪpə], \pˈaɪpə], \p_ˈaɪ_p_ə]\
Definitions of PIPER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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See Pepper.
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One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
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A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
By Oddity Software
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See Pepper.
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One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
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A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The peppers, a genus of the Piperaceae. They contain an acrid resin, an aromatic volatile oil, and a crystallizable principle, piperin, chiefly present in the root and fruit.
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Of the U. S. Ph., the unripe fruit of P. nigrum. Black peppers are berrylike fruits having an aromatic smell and a hot, pungent taste. They contain piperin, a resin, an essential oil isomeric with oil of turpentine, gum, starch, lignin, etc. Black pepper is carminative and stimulant, but is used chiefly as a condiment.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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