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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several evergreen trees of the genus Schinus, especially the Brazilian peppertree or S. molle, native to South America and often planted as an ornamental, having yellowish-white flowers and small reddish fruit.

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  • The branches of a peppertree whose roots had been freshly watered wilted as a flower wilts when broken from the stalk.

    The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911

  • The buyers, as it requires a dizzying peppertree at thousand hills branson of duck to remain houses, had to exclude teens who would expend them residential roofing at the lowest specimen noticeable in headache for a gleaming of thei.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • She filed a missing persons report Tuesday and his body was found Wednesday under heavy peppertree brush 30-40 feet off Albatross Road.

    WBBH - News 2009

  • Pink peppercorns (a misnomer, as they are unrelated to true peppercorns) come from two plants native to South America: the Peruvian peppertree (

    The Kitchn 2009

  • Schinus molle) and Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius

    The Kitchn 2009

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