noun
tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
• Syn: ↑cubeb, ↑cubeb vine, ↑Piper cubeba
• Hypernyms: ↑true pepper, ↑pepper vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Piper, ↑genus Piper
• Part Meronyms: ↑cubeb
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nounUsage: usually capitalized J
: a climbing or somewhat arborescent East Indian pepper (Piper cubeba) that is sometimes cultivated for its fruits which are the source of cubeb
Useful english dictionary. 2012.