peperomia
noun
peperomia is a noun meaning “Any plant of the genus Peperomia, some of which are popular houseplants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-P-E-R-O-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of peperomia is peperomias.
What does peperomia mean?
noun
- 1
Any plant of the genus Peperomia, some of which are popular houseplants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of peperomia
- peperomias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is peperomia?
Peperomia appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Peperomia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | peperomia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does peperomia come from?
Learned borrowing from New Latin peperomia, from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi, “pepper”) + ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, like”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).