CUBEB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cubeb mean? 

• CUBEB (noun)
  The noun CUBEB has 3 senses:

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

2. tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits

3. a cigarette containing cubeb

  Familiarity information: CUBEB used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUBEB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cubeb" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("cubeb" is a part of...):

cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba (tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits)

Holonyms ("cubeb" is a substance of...):

cubeb; cubeb cigarette (a cigarette containing cubeb)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cubeb; cubeb vine; Java pepper; Piper cubeba

Hypernyms ("cubeb" is a kind of...):

pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)

Meronyms (parts of "cubeb"):

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

Holonyms ("cubeb" is a member of...):

genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A cigarette containing cubeb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cubeb; cubeb cigarette

Hypernyms ("cubeb" is a kind of...):

butt; cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

Meronyms (substance of "cubeb"):

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