piper
piper Lexical Profile
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• noun
A musician who plays a pipe, flute, or especially the bagpipes.
"A lone piper played a traditional Scottish lament on the castle ramparts at dusk."
Any tropical climbing vine, shrub, or small tree of the large genus Piper in the family Piperaceae, native to tropical regions worldwide and including black pepper, kava, and betel.
A young, newly hatched pigeon or squab that is just beginning to chirp and emerge from its shell.
"The breeder checked the nesting boxes to make sure each newly hatched piper was being fed by its parents."
• Rhymes for piper
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English pipere, denoting a player on a pipe or flute, a late West Germanic borrowing from Vulgar Latin pipare ('to chirp' or 'play a pipe'), ultimately of imitative origin. The botanical genus sense comes independently from Latin piper ('pepper'), derived via Ancient Greek peperi from Sanskrit pippali ('long pepper').