A plant belonging to the caper family, which includes plants like the common caper used in cooking.
From Capparis, the genus name, combined with the suffix -id meaning 'member of.' Capparis comes from Greek kapparis, referring to the caper plant known in the Mediterranean.
Capers—those tiny brined buds you find on fancy pizzas—are actually immature flower buds from capparid plants, and people have been pickling them for thousands of years because they taste deliciously salty and tangy without any seasoning needed!
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