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Betel

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be=tel

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Betel has 1 sense

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

is a member of genus piper, piper

is a kind of pepper vine, true pepper

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Betel, n. [Pg., fr. Tamil ve, prop. meaning, a mere leaf.].

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. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Betel, n. the leaf of the Asian evergreen climbing plant Piper betle, chewed in the East with parings of the areca nut.

Idiom

betel-nut the areca nut.

Etymology

Port. f. Malayalam vettila

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