piper cubeba

Questions about piper cubeba

What does piper cubeba mean?

piper cubeba means "tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits".

What is another word for piper cubeba?

Close synonyms include cubeb, cubeb vine, Java pepper. 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 piper cubeba a common word?

piper cubeba 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.