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Cubeb

noun

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

Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits. Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba.

A cigarette containing cubeb. Synonym: cubeb cigarette.

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"Cubeb" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... scampered away, making the vast grove ring amain to their acclaims, than I began my preparations. Ordinarily, when afflicted by a catarrhal visitation, it is my habit to use for alleviation cubeb cigarettes. Having none of these about me and having in some way mislaid my sole pocket handkerchief, I now hoped to check the streaming eyes—and nose—and soothe the other symptoms of the complaint by inhaling the ...

— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... was a real boy. He smoked cubeb cigarettes with an almost unprecedented precocity. He nearly learned to chew tobacco. He could snap a sparrow off a telegraph-wire with a nigger-shooter almost infallibly. He had the first air-gun in town and a shot-gun ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes