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Kava
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kava or kavakava (kä`vəkä'və): see pepper pepper, name for the fruits of several unrelated Old and New World plants used as spices or vegetables or in medicine. Old World (True) Peppers


Black pepper (Piper nigrum
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kava

 or kava kava

Nonalcoholic, yellow-green, somewhat bitter beverage made from the root of the pepper plant (mainly Piper methysticum) in most South Pacific islands. It is traditionally consumed in the kava ceremony, which includes the ritual making and drinking of kava and a ceremonial feast. It is taken to relieve stress and anxiety and as a mood elevator.

Kava 

(also, kavakava, Piper methysticum), a shrub of the family Piperaceae (pepper). It grows on the Polynesian Islands and New Guinea. The local population uses the stems, leaves, and rhyzomes of the plant to make a stimulating and highly intoxicating beverage.
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