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Cubeb   Listen
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Cubeb  n.  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.





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... OFFICINALIS.—A native of Java, which furnishes the cubeb fruits of commerce. These fruits are like black pepper, but stalked, and have an acrid, hot, aromatic taste; ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders


Words linked to "Cubeb" :   Java pepper, coffin nail, pepper vine, fag, fruit, cubeb vine, cubeb cigarette, butt, true pepper, piper, cigarette, genus Piper, cigaret, Piper cubeba


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