cubeb Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
  2. noun tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
    cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba.
  3. noun a cigarette containing cubeb
    cubeb cigarette.

WordNet

Cu"beb noun
Etymology
F. cubbe (cf. It. cubebe, Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kabbat.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913