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Cubeb

//ˈkjuːbɛb// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tailed pepper plant (Piper cubeba), an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil.
  2. 2
    a cigarette containing cubeb wordnet
  3. 3
    One of the berries of this plant, used as a condiment.

    "Chestnuts, soaked in muscadel, then boiled, along with satyrion, pistachio nuts, pine kernels, cubebs, cinnamon, rocket seed and sugar. Compounded together, these ingredient form a stimulating electuary."

  4. 4
    tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits wordnet
  5. 5
    spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English quibibe, from Old French quibibe, cubebe, from Arabic كُبَابَة (kubāba). The current form is remodelled after modern French cubèbe.

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