Pepper or peppers may refer to:

Food and spice

Piperaceae The Piperaceae (), also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,600 currently accepted species in 5 genera. The vast majority of species can be found within the two main genera: ''Piper'' ( ...

or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant **

Black pepper Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, known as a peppercorn, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diame ...

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Capsicum ''Capsicum'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the Solanum, nightshade family Solanaceae, native to Americas, the Americas, cultivated worldwide for their chili pepper or bell pepper fruit. Etymology and names The generic name may come f ...

'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae **

Bell pepper The bell pepper (also known as paprika, sweet pepper, pepper, or capsicum ) is the fruit of plants in the Grossum Group of the species ''Capsicum annuum''. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in different colors, including red, yellow, orange ...

Chili pepper Chili peppers (also chile, chile pepper, chilli pepper, or chilli), from Nahuatl '' chīlli'' (), are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for ...

* Sichuan pepper, a strong spice *"Alder pepper", the flower of ''

Alnus alnobetula ''Alnus alnobetula'' is a common tree widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. Many sources refer to it as ''Alnus viridis'', the green alder, but botanically this is considered an illegitimate name synonymous with ''Alnus alnob ...

Music

Pepper (band) Pepper is a three-piece reggae rock band originally from Hawaii, now based in San Diego. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Kaleo Wassman, vocalist/bassist Bret Bollinger, and drummer Yesod Williams. Since the band's formation they have ...

, a rock-reggae band originally from Hawaii *

The Peppers The Peppers was a French male instrumental group who had a hit single in 1974 with "Pepper Box". The song reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more com ...

, a French male instrumental group * "Pepper" (song), a 1996 song by Butthole Surfers * "Pepper", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from ''LP Underground 12''

People and fictional characters

Pepper (name) Pepper is a given name, nickname and surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Abel C. Pepper (1793-1860), American politician and Indian agent * Art Pepper (1925–1982), American jazz musician * Barry Pepper (b. 1970), Canadian ...

, a list of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname *

Peppers (name) Peppers (name) may refer to: * Josh Peppers, American professional basketball player *Julius Peppers, American NFL defensive end who plays for the Carolina Panthers *Debra Peppers, American television and radio host *Jabrill Peppers, American NFL ...

, a list of people with the surname

Science and technology

Pepper (cryptography) In cryptography, a pepper is a secret added to an input such as a password during hashing with a cryptographic hash function. This value differs from a salt in that it is not stored alongside a password hash, but rather the pepper is kept separate ...

, a secret value added before hashing *

Pepper (robot) Pepper is a semi-humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics (formerly Aldebaran Robotics), designed with the ability to read emotions. It was introduced in a conference on 5 June 2014, and was showcased in SoftBank Mobile phone stores in ...

, a humanoid robot by Aldebaran Robotics and SoftBank Mobile *

PPAPI Google Native Client (NaCl) is a discontinued sandboxing technology for running either a subset of Intel x86, ARM, or MIPS native code, or a portable executable, in a sandbox. It allows safely running native code from a web browser, independen ...

or Pepper Plugin API, an interface for web browser plugins

Sports

* Pepper (baseball), an exercise and a game *

Pepper (volleyball) In volleyball, pepper, usually used as a verb, is a very popular warm-up drill, generally involving two players. This drill is used to practice and perfect ball control. It originated from a drill traditionally used in baseball Baseba ...

, a drill *

Newark Peppers The Newark Peppers, originally known as the Indianapolis Hoosiers, were a Federal League baseball team from 1913–1915. The Federal League (FL), founded in 1913, was a third major league in 1914 and 1915. History The Federal League began as an in ...

, a defunct Major League Baseball team in the Federal League

Other uses

* "Pepper" (''The Brak Show''), a 2002 episode *

Pepper (card game) Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

, an alternate name for bid euchre *

Pepper (dog) Pepper was a female Dalmatian dog from Pennsylvania, United States, who disappeared in 1965, eventually to turn up euthanased in a New York hospital, having been stolen by an animal dealer who supplied vivisectionists. Pepper's story, along with ...

, a Dalmatian whose death led to the U.S. Animal Welfare Act of 1966 * ''Pepper'' (film), a 1936 American comedy film *

Pepper, West Virginia Pepper is an unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...

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Perets' ''Perets'' ( uk, Перець, "Pepper") is a Ukrainian satirical and humorous illustrated magazine. Together with the Moscow " Krocodil" (circulation in 1986 5 million copies) "Pepper" (circulation in 1986 3.3 million copies) was one of the two ...

'' or Pepper, a Ukrainian satirical newspaper *

Cynthia Peretti Cynthia Peretti (June 2, 1948 – May 8, 2009) was an American professional wrestler and trainer, better known by her ring name Princess Jasmine. Professional wrestling career In 1968, Peretti was trained by professional wrestlers Prince Pullins ...