cubeb
the spicy fruit or drupe of an East Indian climbing shrub, Piper cubeba, of the pepper family.
Origin of cubeb
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How to use cubeb in a sentence
Ordinarily, when afflicted by a catarrhal visitation, it is my habit to use for alleviation cubeb cigarettes.
Fibble, D. D. | Irvin Shrewsbury CobbHe smoked cubeb cigarettes with an almost unprecedented precocity.
In a Little Town | Rupert HughesThe cubeb is cultivated in Java and Sumatra, the fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and carefully dried.
There was a strange medicinal odor—as of cubeb cigarettes—in the air.
The Damnation of Theron Ware | Harold FredericThe cubeb-yielding plant is not unlike the pepper plant and belongs to the same family (Piperaceae).
British Dictionary definitions for cubeb
/ (ˈkjuːbɛb) /
a SE Asian treelike piperaceous woody climbing plant, Piper cubeba, with brownish berries
the unripe spicy fruit of this plant, dried and used as a stimulant and diuretic and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
Origin of cubeb
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