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# peppercorn

«peppercorn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small dried berry of the pepper plant; it is ground up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a peppercorn, peppercorns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A peppercorn is a small dried berry of the pepper plant; it is ground up to make black or white pepper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#m1)

2) A «peppercorn rent» is a tiny, almost free payment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking, peppercorns are put whole into stews or ground in a pepper mill. In science and geography they are a spice that was once very valuable and traded across the world. Phrases: «whole peppercorns», «crushed peppercorns», «a peppercorn rent».

### examples

- Dad put a few peppercorns in the soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#x1)
- The pepper mill grinds the peppercorns into black pepper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#x2)
- A peppercorn is about as big as a tiny pea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#x3)
- Long ago, peppercorns were so valuable that people paid with them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#x4)
- Green peppercorns are picked before they are ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#x5)
- Biting a whole peppercorn makes your mouth hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/#x6)

### note

Countable: peppercorn, peppercorns; one word. A peppercorn is not related to the vegetable «pepper» (capsicum, bell pepper), even though they share the name.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «peppercorn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peppercorn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.