Defn: 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.
CUBEBIC
Cu*beb"ic (k-bb"k), a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).
CUBHOOD
Cub"hood (kb"hd), n.
Defn: The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age."
W. B. Dawkins.
CUBIC; CUBICAL
Cu"bic (k"bk), Cu"bic*al (-b-kal), a. Etym: [L. cubicus, Gr. cubique.
See Cube.]
1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
2. (Crystallog.)
Defn: Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. — Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. — Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. — Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.
CUBIC
Cu"bic, n. (Geom.)