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monk's pepper

monk's pepper noun: the chaste tree.

Noun

monk's pepper

  1. The chaste tree.
  2. (historical) The fruit or another medicinal product of this tree; chasteberry

Origin of monk's pepper

From the cultural notion that monks needed to be chaste, and so (at least, as imagined by users of this word) they may have consumed parts of it as an aid to maintain chastity.

Questions about monk's pepper

What does monk's pepper mean?
Monk's pepper means the chaste tree.
What part of speech is monk's pepper?
Monk's pepper is a noun.

Words near monk's pepper in the dictionary

  1. monk's chair
  2. monk's chairs
  3. monk's head
  4. monk's hood
  5. monk's hoods
  6. monk's pepper
  7. monk's rhubarb
  8. monk's seam
  9. Monk's Tale stanza
  10. monkaS
  11. Monkayo

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