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betel nut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun betel nut has 1 sense
- betel nut(n = noun.food) areca nut - seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia; Array is a kind of edible seed
is a part of areca catechu, betel palm
CIDE DICTIONARY
betel nut,
The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime. [1913 Webster]
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