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Black pepper

Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac…

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Black pepper

Nodes212
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Triples176
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009434
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Black pepper

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related to history · 42
Black pepper → BCE, Before, Black, Chera Dynasty, Chilli, China, Chinese, East Malaysia, Egypt, Europe, European, In, India, Indian, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Innes Miller, Java, Kerala, Levant
related to Postclassical Europe · 23
Black pepper → After, Alaric, Arabs, Bishop, By, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Early Middle Ages, England, Genoa, India, Innes Miller, Islamic, Italian, Mediterranean, Once, Pepper, Persians, Rome, Saint Aldhelm, Sherborne
related to Distribution and habitat · 17
Black pepper → Black, Deforestation, Francis Buchanan, Goa, India, Into, Kerala, Malabar, Malabar Coast, No, Pepper, Scottish, South Asia, Southeast Asia, The, Western Ghats, Wild
related to Pink pepper and other plants · 15
Black pepper → Anacardiaceae, Argentina, As, Brazilian, Chile, Drimys, In New Zealand, Peruvian, Pink, Piper, Pseudowintera, Schinus, Several, The, United States
related to Flavour · 14
Black pepper → Black, Cyperus, European, Handheld, Hexahydro-3α, Once, Other, Pepper, Primarily, Refined, Shiraz, Spice, The, These
related to In culture · 13
Black pepper → BCE, Black, Egypt, Greece, India, Little, Malabar Coast, Nile, Pepper, Peppercorns, Ramesses II, The, Western
related to China · 10
Black pepper → BCE, China, Emperor Wu, He, It, Sent, Shu, Sichuan, Tang Meng, The
related to White pepper · 9
Black pepper → Chinese, Ground, However, It, Portuguese, Sometimes, Thai, This, White
related to Green pepper · 8
Black pepper → Dried, Fresh, Green, Pickled, Tamil, Thai, Their, They
related to Production · 6
Black pepper → Brazil, In, India, Indonesia, Peppercorns, Vietnam

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Black pepperis adrupe and when dried is known as a peppercorn.Within the genus Piper0.90text
P. caninuminstance ofblack pepper is most closely related to other Asian species0.80text
Black pepperrelated to Black pepperBlack0.60section
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Black pepperrelated to Black pepperOnce0.60section
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Black pepperrelated to ChinaIt0.60section
Black pepperrelated to ChinaChina0.60section
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Black pepperrelated to ChinaTang Meng0.60section
Black pepperrelated to ChinaSent0.60section
Black pepperrelated to ChinaEmperor Wu0.60section

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