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Cubeb   Listen
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Cubeb  n.  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.





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"Cubeb" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Cubeb" :   fag, cigarette, fruit, cigaret, butt, pepper vine, true pepper, cubeb vine, cubeb cigarette, genus Piper, Java pepper, piper, coffin nail, Piper cubeba


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