piperine (piper in)

[F. piperine, peperin, pépérine, per, + E. -itious.] Having a hot, biting, or pungent taste, like that of pepper; peppery. piperivorous (pip-e-riv'ō-rus), a. [L. [L. piper, piper, pepper, + vorare, devour.] Eating Eating or or feeding feeding upon pepper, as a bird: as, the piperivorous toucan, Pteroglo us piper i vor us. piperlyt (pi'per-li), a. [ Who in London hath not heard of his [Greene's]... piperly extemporizing and Tar let on i zing, his apish counterfeiting of every ridiculous and absurd toy? G. Harvey, Four Letters, ii.