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- English Word Piper Definition A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
- English Word Piperaceous Definition Of or pertaining to the order of plants (Piperaceae) of which the pepper (Piper nigrum) is the type. There are about a dozen genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and aromatic qualities.
- English Word Piperic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
- English Word Piperidge Definition Same as Pepperidge.
- English Word Piperidine Definition An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
- English Word Piperine Definition A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other species.
- English Word Piperonal Definition A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.
- English Word Piperylene Definition A hydrocarbon obtained by decomposition of certain piperidine derivatives.
- English Word Pipestem Definition The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.
- English Word Pipestone Definition A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
- English Word Pipette Definition A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
- English Word Pipevine Definition The Dutchman's pipe. See under Dutchman.
- English Word Pipewort Definition Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.
- English Word Piping Definition of Pipe
- English Word Piping Definition Playing on a musical pipe.
- English Word Piping Definition Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
- English Word Piping Definition Emitting a high, shrill sound.
- English Word Piping Definition Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
- English Word Piping Definition A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.
- English Word Piping Definition Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.
- English Word Piping Definition The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
- English Word Piping Definition A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
- English Word Pipistrel Definition Alt. of Pipistrelle
- English Word Pipistrelle Definition A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.
- English Word Pipit Definition Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidae. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.
- English Word Pipkin Definition A small earthen boiler.
- English Word Pipped Definition of Pip
- English Word Pippin Definition An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.
- English Word Pippin Definition A name given to apples of several different kinds, as Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin.
- English Word Pipping Definition of Pip