Found 2 items, similar to Cubeb.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cubeb
cubeb
n 1: spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is
used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in
cigarettes
2: tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy
berrylike fruits [syn:
cubeb vine,
Java pepper,
Piper cubeba
]
3: a cigarette containing cubeb [syn:
cubeb cigarette]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cubeb
Cubeb
\Cu"beb\ (k[=u]"b[e^]b), n. [F. cub[`e]be (cf. It. cubebe,
Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kab[=a]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.
[1913 Webster]