cubeb-pepper
11cubeb vine — noun tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits • Syn: ↑cubeb, ↑Java pepper, ↑Piper cubeba • Hypernyms: ↑true pepper, ↑pepper vine • Member Holonyms: ↑Piper, ↑ …
12pepper — Synonyms and related words: Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, aggressiveness, aim at, allspice, anchovies, angelica, applesauce, band, bang, bar, barrage, basil, bell pepper, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, black pepper, blast, blaze,… …
13cubeb — [ kju:bɛb] noun 1》 a tropical shrub of the pepper family, which bears pungent berries. [Piper cubeba (Asia) and other species.] 2》 the dried unripe berries of the cubeb, used medicinally and to flavour cigarettes. Origin ME: from OFr. cubebe,… …
14cubeb — noun /ˈkjuːbɛb/ The tailed pepper, Piper cubeba; an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. Syn: tailed pepper, Java pepper …
15pepper family — noun tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets • Syn: ↑Piperaceae, ↑family Piperaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Piperales, ↑ …
16cubeb — noun Etymology: Middle English quibibe, cubebe, from Anglo French quibibe, cubibe, from Medieval Latin cubeba, from dialect Arabic kubāba Date: 14th century the dried unripe berry of a tropical shrub (Piper cubeba) of the pepper family that is… …
17cubeb — /kyooh beb/, n. the spicy fruit or drupe of an East Indian climbing shrub, Piper cubeba, of the pepper family. [1250 1300; < ML cubeba < Ar kubabah (classical Ar kababah); r. ME cucube, quibibe < AF, MF < ML, as above] * * * …
18cubeb berry — noun The berry of the tailed pepper eaten as a fruit …
19cubeb — The dried unripe, nearly full grown fruit of Piper cubeba (family Piperaceae), a climbing plant of the West Indies, used as stimulant, carminative, and local irritant; c. oil has been used as a mild urinary antiseptic. [Ar. and Hindu, kababa] * * …
20cubeb — n. plant in the pepper family …
