betel : Idioms & Phrases

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betel nut

  • noun seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia
    areca nut.
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Be"tel nut`
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  1. The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.
Webster 1913

betel palm

  • noun southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)
    Areca catechu.
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betel pepper

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

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