cubeb

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The neighbors do not know they are cubeb, and, anyhow, that's a habit, mother.

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  1. noun A tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine (Piper cubeba) having spicy, berrylike fruits, heart-shaped leaves, and small flowers in cylindrical spikes.
  2. noun The dried, unripe, berrylike fruit of this plant, used in perfumery, pharmaceuticals, and commercial flavorings.

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  • Know what asafetida, long pepper and cubeb pepper are?
  • Lamb Loin - rhubarb, tomato, cubeb pepper, zucchini —  ChuckEats blog
  • The neighbors do not know they are cubeb, and, anyhow, that's a habit, mother. —  Tish
  • Tish with the evening paper and Aggie inhaling a cubeb cigarette, her hay fever having threatened a return. —  Tish
  • And Miss Aggie, although she is very sweet, is always smoking cubeb cigarettes for hay fever, and it looks terrible! —  Tish
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  1. Middle English cubebe, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cubēba, from Arabic dialectal kubāba, variant of Arabic kabāba.

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  1. Middle English corruptly cucube, quibibe; = French cubèbe = Provencal Spanish cubcba = Portuguese cubebas, cobebas, plural, = Italian cubebe, from Middle Latin cubeba, from Arabic Persian kabāba, Hindustani kabāba, kabāb-chīnī.
 

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/ˈkjubɛb/
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