cubeb | (n) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes |
cubeb | (n) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits, Syn. Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb vine |
cubeb | (n) a cigarette containing cubeb, Syn. cubeb cigarette |
Cubeb | n. [ F. cubèbe (cf. It. cubebe, Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kabābat. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
cubebic | a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; |
青文字 | [あおもじ, aomoji] (n) Litsea cubeba [Add to Longdo] |