Assertion: pungency | /r/CapableOf | offer inexpensive substitute
Facets:
value: for black peppercorns
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: In Europe, they first were grown in the monastery gardens of Spain and Portugal as botanical curiosities, but the monks experimented with their culinary potential and discovered that their pungency offered an inexpensive substitute for black peppercorns, which were so costly that they were used as legal currency in some countries.