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Definition of Cubeb

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

2. Noun. Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits.

3. Noun. A cigarette containing cubeb.

Definition of Cubeb

1. 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.

Definition of Cubeb

1. Noun. The tailed pepper, (spelink Piper cubeba); an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cubeb

1. a woody vine [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cubeb

1. 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; cubeb oil has been used as a mild urinary antiseptic. Origin: Ar. And Hindu, kababa (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubeb

cubby hole cubby holes cubby house cubby houses cubbyhole cubbyholes cube cube-shaped cube out cube pessary

cube root cube roots cube steak cube steaks cube with handles cubeb (current term) cubeb berry cubeb cigarette cubeb vine cubebic acid

cubebin cubebs cubed cubeland cubelike cuber cubers cubewano cubewanos

Literary usage of Cubeb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of therapeutics: Referring Especially to the Products of the by Davis & Company Parke, Parke, Davis & Company (1909)
"Buchu, 60 grs. Juniper berries, 15 grs. cubeb, 15 grs. ... Oil cubeb, 3 mins. Copaiba Oil and Oil of cubeb (No. 41). Oil Copaiba, 6 mins. , Oil cubeb, ..."

2. Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis: A Manual of Standard Methods for the by Azor Thurston (1922)
"-25.° to -40.° Not less than 60 per cent, distills between 250° C. and 280° C. (BP) Principal Components. The oil from fresh cubeb is composed of terpenes ..."

3. Organic materia medica: Including the Standard Remedies of the Leading by Parke, Davis & Company (1888)
"For other capsules containing cubeb see appended Capsule Formulas list for ... For others containing cubeb see appended Pill Formulae list for numbers ..."

4. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle (1886)
"Copaiba is sometimes advantageously combined or alternated with cubeb. ... The odour of cubeb is aromatic; the taste warm, acrid, and camphoraceous. ..."

5. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"cubeb; fruit. — Natural size and magnified. into a stipe about 6 to 8 millimeters (£-£ inch) long, reticu- lately wrinkled, blackish-gray, the mesocarp with ..."

6. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1906)
"Like the aromatics and drugs containing a volatile oil, cubeb is irritant ... In medicinal amounts cubeb is an aromatic stomachic, increasing the appetite ..."

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