1. Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
   "Cubeb berries were once prized as a medicinal spice"; "cubeb vine berries were once prized as a medicinal spice";
   - cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba
    
2. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes
   "The perfumer added a hint of cubeb to the fragrance for an exotic touch"
    
3. A cigarette containing cubeb
   "Cubeb cigarettes were once popular for their supposed medicinal properties";
   - cubeb cigarette

Derived forms: cubebs

Type of: cig [informal], cigaret [US], cigarette, ciggy [Brit, informal], coffin nail [informal], durry [Austral, informal], fag [Brit, informal], fruit, gasper [Brit, informal], pepper vine, smoke [informal], true pepper

Part of: genus Piper, Piper

Encyclopedia: Cubeb