Meaning of CUBEB
| Pronunciation: | | 'kyoobeb
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- [n] a cigarette containing cubeb
- [n] tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
- [n] spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
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| | Synonyms: | | cubeb cigarette, cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
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| | See Also: | | butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, cubeb, cubeb, cubeb cigarette, fag, fruit, genus Piper, pepper vine, Piper, true pepper | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cu"beb\ (k?"b?b), n. [F. cub?be (cf. It. cubebe, Pr.,
Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kab?bat.]
The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper ({Piper
Cubeba}; in med., {Cubeba officinalis}), native in Java and
Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The
dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant
and purgative.
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