From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cubeb \Cu"beb\ (k[=u]"b[e^]b), noun [F. cub['e]be (cf. It. cubebe, Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kab[=a]bat.] 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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 [syn: {cubeb vine}, {Java pepper}, {Piper cubeba}]
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