piper : Idioms & Phrases
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genus piper
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noun type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
Piper.
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pied piper
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noun a leader who entices people to follow (especially to their doom)
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noun the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning
Pied Piper.
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pied piper of hamelin
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noun the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning
Pied Piper.
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piper betel
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noun Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
betel pepper; betel.
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piper cubeba
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noun tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
cubeb vine; Java pepper; cubeb.
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piper longum
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noun slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas
long pepper.
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piper nigrum
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noun climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
pepper; common pepper; black pepper; Madagascar pepper; white pepper.
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To pay the piper
- to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. Colloq.
- to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.
