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单词 cubeb
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cubebn.

Brit. /ˈkjuːbɛb/, U.S. /ˈkjuˌbɛb/
Forms: Middle English cucubes, Middle English qui-, quybib(e, quybyb(e, whibibbe, 1500s -ibbe, Middle English–1500s cubibe, cubube, 1600s cubub, 1500s–1600s cubebe, 1600s– cubeb.
Etymology: < French cubèbe (14th cent. in Littré) = Provençal cubeba, Spanish cubeba, Italian cubeba, medieval Latin cubēba, < Arabic kabābah. In Old French also quibibes (in W. de Biblesworth), quybybes, cucubes (in manuscripts of Mandeville, 14th cent.), whence the Middle English variants.
a. The berry of a climbing shrub Piper Cubeba or Cubeba officinalis, a native of Java and the adjacent islands; it resembles a grain of pepper, and has a pungent spicy flavour, and is used in medicine and cookery. (Usually in plural cubebs, which in pharmacy is sometimes construed as a collective singular.) African cubebs: the fruit of an allied African species, Piper clusii.
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cubeb pepper1693
Java pepper1794
c1300 K. Alis. 6796 Theo gilofre, quybibe, and mace.
c1305 Land of Cokaygne 78 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 158 Of cucubes þer n'is no lakke.
c1314 Rembrun v Clowes, quibibes, gren de Paris.
1355–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 555 Et in una libra de Whibibbes prec. 4s.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. 50 The Fruyt, the whiche is as Quybybes, thei clepen Abebissam [Fr. le fruit qest come quibibes (v.r. cucubes, cubes, quybybes)].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 421/1 Quybybe, spyce, quiparum.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 238v Cububes which growe in the Ilande of Iaua.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 174 Cubebs strengthen a weake and windy stomacke.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 172 Take..cubebs, cardamony..of eache one ounce and a half.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 174 The Cubebs of the shops..are the dried fruit of Piper cubeba.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 504 In some respects, cubebs..resembles black pepper in its effects.
b. attributive, as cubeb pepper (= main sense), cubeb tree.
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1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 619 The Cubeb-Tree..from Bengal.
1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 106 Cubeb pepper used in medicine.

Derivatives

cuˈbebene n. the chief constituent of oil of cubebs.
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1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 436 Hydrate of cubebene or camphor of cubebs.
cuˈbebic acid n. a resinous acid obtained from cubebs.
cuˈbebate n. a salt of this acid.
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1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 505 Ten grammes of the cubebate of magnesium.
cuˈbebin n. a crystalline substance existing in cubebs.
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 896 A peculiar substance, to which he has given the name of cubebin.
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