Definitions for pepper-tree

pepper-tree pepper tree

Pepper-Tree is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in pepper-tree (-eeeeppprrt).

Definitions for pepper-tree

noun

  1. any of several chiefly South American, evergreen trees belonging to the genus Schinus, of the cashew family, cultivated in subtropical regions as an ornamental.

Origin of pepper-tree

First recorded in 1685-95

Examples for pepper-tree

A mockingbird sang in the pepper tree near the house but there was no other sound.

Then your kinsfolk and my kinsfolk are to meet under the pepper tree as the bells of the old mission tell the hour of noon.

It turned out, upon inquiry, to be a pepper tree—an importation from China.

Too, each afternoon he had eagerly watched at the pepper tree for the appearance of his Lady Red Bird, but she had not come.

It was at this moment that O-liver stopped under the pepper tree.

In the middle of the square a pepper tree stretched its thin branches across a marble fountain, in which shining water splashed.

It turned out, upon inquiry, to be a pepper tree--an importation from China.

The hoopoe which had been saying Cuk—Cuk—Cuk all the morning in the pepper tree was silent.

Without greeting he hastily took up the only chair he had and placed it in the shade of the pepper tree in front of the shack.

He stopped Mary Pick under a pepper tree and surveyed the scene.

Word Value for pepper-tree
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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