Cubeb

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

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

tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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