Cu·beb 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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Piper cubeba
n : tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy
berrylike fruits [syn: cubeb, cubeb vine, Java
pepper]