Piperaceae

Definitions of Piperaceae
  1. noun
    tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
    synonyms: family Piperaceae, pepper family
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    type of:
    dicot family, magnoliopsid family
    family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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