Sichuan pepper

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Sichuan pepper pods.

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Sichuan pepper (usually uncountable, plural Sichuan peppers)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The outer pod of the tiny fruit of a number of species in the genus Zanthoxylum widely grown and consumed in Asia as a spice. Not closely related to black pepper or to chilli peppers.
  2. (uncountable) Spice made from this pod.
  3. (countable) A plant producing the pods, Zanthoxylum

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  • (plant): Same as holonyms of the pod.

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