betel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
    betel pepper; Piper betel.

WordNet

Be"tel noun
Etymology
Pg., fr. Tamil vettilei, prop. meaning, a mere leaf.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

Webster 1913