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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cu·beb n.  The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in Med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries.  The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Piper cubeba
      n : tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy
          berrylike fruits [syn: cubeb, cubeb vine, Java
           pepper]