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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pepper/ˈpepə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 a pungent, hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, used to flavour food.

• 2 a climbing vine with berries that are dried as black or white peppercorns. [Piper nigrum.]

  ■ used in names of related plants having hot-tasting leaves, or fruits used as a pungent spice, e.g. Jamaica pepper, water pepper.

• 3 a capsicum, especially a sweet pepper.

  ■ a reddish and typically hot-tasting spice prepared from various forms of capsicum.

• 4 Baseball a practice game in which a fielder throws at close range to a batter who hits back to the fielder.

▶verb

• 1 sprinkle or season with pepper.

• 2 (usu. be peppered with) scatter liberally over or through.

• 3 hit repeatedly with small missiles or gunshot.

• 4 archaic inflict severe punishment or suffering upon.

– origin OE piper, pipor, of W. Gmc origin; via L. from Gk peperi, from Sanskrit pippalī ‘berry, peppercorn’.