piper

Plural: pipers

Noun

• One who plays a pipe or other wind instrument.
• someone who plays the bagpipe
• type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
• A musician who plays a pipe.
• A bagpiper.
• A baby pigeon.
• A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
• A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
• A broken-winded hack horse.
• Archaic form of pepper.

Examples

• The word PIPER played well, but he wished for a blank to extend it.

Synonyms

bagpiper, genus Piper, baby pigeon, pigeon chick, squab

Related Words

bagpiper, hornpiper