• 1. a solid having six plane square faces in which the angle between two adjacent sides is a right angle
• 2. the product of three equal factors: the cube of 2 is 2 2 2 (usually written 2 3 )
• 3. something in the form of a cube
• 4. to raise (a number or quantity) to the third power
• 5. to measure the cubic contents of
• 6. to make, shape, or cut (something, esp food) into cubes
• 7. to tenderize (meat) by scoring into squares or by pounding with a device which has a surface of metal cubes
• 8. C16: from Latin...

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• 1. any of various tropical American plants, esp any of the leguminous genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone
• 2. an extract from the roots of these plants: a fish poison and insecticide
• 3. American Spanish cubé, of unknown origin

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