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椒 kanji
Japanese pepper tree
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Words with 椒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2胡椒Popularpepper
- —山椒Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash
- —花椒Chinese prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum); Sichuan pepper (spice); Szechuan peppercorn
- —蕃椒capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper; cayenne; red pepper
- —山椒魚salamander
- —黒胡椒black pepper (Piper nigrum)
- —胡椒鯛crescent sweetlips (species of fish, Plectorhinchus cinctus)
- —山椒喰ashy minivet (species of passerine bird, Pericrocotus divaricatus)
- —山椒藻floating watermoss (Salvinia natans)
- —切山椒sweetened mochi flavoured with Japanese pepper
- —山椒餅mochi with sanshō (Sichuan pepper)
- —実山椒green Japanese peppercorn; unripe Japanese peppercorn
- —胡椒草garden cress (Lepidium sativum)
- —長胡椒Indian long pepper (Piper longum); longpepper
- —犬山椒mastic-leaf prickly ash (Zanthoxylum schinifolium); Japanese prickly ash; Japanese pepper
- —烏山椒ailanthus-like prickly ash (Zanthoxylum ailanthoides)
- —大山椒魚Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)
- —柚子胡椒condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile)
- —霞山椒魚clouded salamander (Hynobius nebulosus)
- —黒山椒魚Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)
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