monk's pepper
monk's pepper · monk's peppers
The chaste treeThe chaste tree.
Meaning
2 sensesThe chaste tree.
(historical)The fruit or another medicinal product of this tree; chasteberry
Origin
From the cultural notion that monks needed to be chaste, and so (at least, as imagined byFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: monk's peppers| Singular | monk's pepper |
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| Plural | monk's peppers |
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