cubeb

1. 1.

   spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes

   Broaderfruit
2. 2.

   tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits

   Synonymscubeb vineJava pepperPiper cubeba

   Broadertrue pepper

   Part ofPiper
3. 3.

   a cigarette containing cubeb

   Synonymscubeb cigarette

   Broadercigarette

Other forms of cubeb

plural

cubebs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cubeb

What does cubeb mean?

cubeb means "spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cubeb?

cubeb has 2 syllables: cu-beb. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for cubeb?

Close synonyms include cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb cigarette. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cubeb a common word?

cubeb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.