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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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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Schinus molle) and Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius
The Kitchn 2009
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