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]