KAVA
- a tropical shrub, also AVA, KAVAKAVA [n -S]
- Polynesian shrub, Piper methysticum, of the pepper family, the aromatic roots of which are used to make an intoxicating beverage
- the beverage made from these roots
- an Australasian shrubby pepper (Piper methysticum) from whose crushed root an intoxicating beverage is made