cubeb
/kyoo-beb/US // ˈkyu bɛb //UK // (ˈkjuːbɛb) //
立方体,立方米,立博,立方舟
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n.名词 noun
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- : the spicy fruit or drupe of an East Indian climbing shrub, Piper cubeba, of the pepper family.
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Ordinarily, when afflicted by a catarrhal visitation, it is my habit to use for alleviation cubeb cigarettes.
He smoked cubeb cigarettes with an almost unprecedented precocity.
The cubeb is cultivated in Java and Sumatra, the fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and carefully dried.
There was a strange medicinal odor—as of cubeb cigarettes—in the air.
The cubeb-yielding plant is not unlike the pepper plant and belongs to the same family (Piperaceae).
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