Cubeb

[kju:beb]

Definition

(noun.) a cigarette containing cubeb.

(noun.) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits.

(noun.) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes.

Typist: Osborn--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Typist: Robinson

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Java pepper (Piper cubeba).

Editor: Winthrop

Definition

n. the dried berry of Piper cubeba a climbing shrub native to Sumatra—useful as a stomachic and carminative in indigestion for piles and for sore throats.—n. Cubeb′in a crystallising substance in cubebs.

Editor: Rhoda