noun
- the dried berries of a climbing pepper plant, used as a spice and formerly in medicine
Usage: historical; botanical
Examples
- Cubebs were once commonly used to treat respiratory ailments.
- The spice merchant sold cubebs alongside other exotic peppers.
- Medieval recipes often called for cubebs as a flavoring agent.
- Cubebs have a distinctive tail-like stem that distinguishes them from black pepper.
- The aromatic cubebs were imported from Java and other Indonesian islands.
- Traditional medicine practitioners used cubebs to treat various conditions.