| 单词 | cubeb | 
| 释义 | cubebn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > 			[noun]		 > other spices cubebc1300 madrian1357 anet seeda1398 poppy seeda1398 powder doucea1425 garquincea1483 spignelc1503 geland1714 mulatto1885 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > 			[noun]		 > fruit or seed > cubeb berry cubebc1300 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1875    H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 		(1879)	 505  				Ten grammes of the cubebate of magnesium.   cuˈbebin n. a crystalline substance existing in cubebs. ΚΠ 1838    T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 896  				A peculiar substance, to which he has given the name of cubebin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  | 
	
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