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Cubeb

noun
1.
Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes.
2.
Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits.  Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba.
3.
A cigarette containing cubeb.  Synonym: cubeb cigarette.



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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
... 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


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