Cubeb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine (Piper cubeba) having spicy, berrylike fruits, heart-shaped leaves, and small flowers in cylindrical spikes.
  • n. The dried, unripe, berrylike fruit of this plant, used in perfumery, pharmaceuticals, and commercial flavorings.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The small spicy berry of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing shrub of Java and other East Indian islands. It resembles a grain of pepper, but is somewhat longer. In aromatic warmth and pungency cubebs are far inferior to pepper; but they are much valued for their use in diseases of the urinary system and of the bronchial tubes. Sometimes called cubeb pepper.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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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