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cubeb

DEFINITIONS OF: cubeb

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n tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits

Synonyms:
Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb vine
Type of:
pepper vine, true pepper
any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper

n spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes

Type of:
fruit
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

n a cigarette containing cubeb

Synonyms:
cubeb cigarette
Type of:
butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag
finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
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