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2 definitions found 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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