pepper . ( Of pepper ). 1. m. shrub climbing, the family of the Piperáceas, with ramosos stems that reach ten meters in length, Woody in the old parties, arable in the recent, and knots thick stretch on stretch, where adventitious roots arise. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, thick, entire, nerve, ovate and dark green, flowers in small, greenish spikes and its fruit is the pepper. It is a tropical plant. 2. m vessel is put ground pepper, to serve it on the table. pepper false. 1. m. also.