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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cubeb \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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