| ant shrike | antbirds superficially resembling shrikes |
piping crow
piping crow-shrike
Gymnorhina tibicen | crow-sized black-and-white bird, a good mimic often caged |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
| shrike | any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals |
European shrike
Lanius excubitor | a common European butcherbird |
northern shrike
Lanius borealis | a butcherbird of northern North America |
whiteumped shrike
Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides | a butcherbird of western North America, grey with white underparts |
loggerhead shrike
Lanius lucovicianus | a common shrike of southeastern United States having black bands around the eyes |
migrant shrike
Lanius ludovicianus migrans | a shrike of central North America, winters in Texas and the southern Mississippi valley |
| bush shrike | an African shrike |
black-fronted bush shrike
Chlorophoneus nigrifrons | a kind of bush shrike |
| pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
pepper mill
pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
pepper shaker
pepper box
pepper pot | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper |
| pepper spray | a nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum, used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker, also used as a bear deterrent |
pepper pot
Philadelphia pepper pot | a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns, often contains dumplings |
| pepper | sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum |
| sweet pepper | large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong, commonly used in salads |
| bell pepper | large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties |
| green pepper | a sweet pepper that becomes red when ripe |
| globe pepper | round sweet pepper |
| hot pepper | any of various pungent capsicum fruits |
chili
chili pepper
chilli
chilly
chile | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency |
jalapeno
jalapeno pepper | hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| cayenne cayenne pepper | a long and often twisted hot red pepper |
| tabasco red pepper | very hot red peppers, usually long and thin, some very small |
| pepper peppercorn | pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India, use whole or ground |
| black pepper | pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on |
| white pepper | pepper ground from husked peppercorns |
cayenne
cayenne pepper
red pepper | ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum |
pepper sauce
Poivrade | for venison: brown sauce with sauteed vegetables and trimmings and marinade and plenty of pepper |
| pepper steak | strips of steak sauteed with green peppers and onions |
steak au poivre
peppered steak
pepper steak | steak covered with crushed peppercorns pan-broiled and served with brandy-and-butter sauce |
Guinea pepper negro pepper
Xylopia aethiopica | tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine |
pepper shrub
Pseudowintera colorata
Wintera colorata | evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits |
crinkleroot
crinkleoot
crinkle root
pepper root
toothwort
Cardamine diphylla
Dentaria diphylla | North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots |
common garden cress
garden pepper cress
pepper grass
pepperwort Lepidium sativum | annual herb used as salad green and garnish |
sweet pepperbush
pepper bush
summer sweet
white alder Clethra alnifolia | shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers |
grains of paradise
Guinea grains
Guinea pepper melagueta pepper
Aframomum melegueta | West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds |
| pepper tree Kirkia wilmsii | small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs |
pepper tree molle Peruvian mastic tree
Schinus molle | small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits |
Brazilian pepper tree
Schinus terebinthifolius | small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit, used as a street tree and lawn specimen |
wall pepper
Sedum acre | mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers, widely introduced as a ground cover |
capsicum
pepper
capsicum pepper plant | any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers |
cone pepper
Capsicum annuum conoides | plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits, sometimes grown as an ornamental |
cayenne
cayenne pepper
chili pepper
chilli pepper
long pepper jalapeno
Capsicum annuum longum | plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers, usually red |
sweet pepper
bell pepper
pimento
pimiento
paprika
sweet pepper plant
Capsicum annuum grossum | plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits, the principal salad peppers |
cherry pepper
Capsicum annuum cerasiforme | plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits |
bird pepper
Capsicum frutescens baccatum
Capsicum baccatum | plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits, includes wild forms native to tropical America, thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers |
tabasco pepper
hot pepper
tabasco plant
Capsicum frutescens | plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers, grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce |