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cubeb
[ kyoo-beb ]
noun
- the spicy fruit or drupe of an East Indian climbing shrub, Piper cubeba, of the pepper family.
cubeb
/ ˈkjuːbɛb /
noun
- 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
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Origin of cubeb1
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Origin of cubeb1
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Example Sentences
Ordinarily, when afflicted by a catarrhal visitation, it is my habit to use for alleviation cubeb cigarettes.
He smoked cubeb cigarettes with an almost unprecedented precocity.
The 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 cubeb-yielding plant is not unlike the pepper plant and belongs to the same family (Piperaceae).
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