Hypertext Webster Gateway: "betel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Betel \Be"tel\ (b[=e]"t'l), n. [Pg., fr. Tamil ve[.t][.t]ilei,
prop. meaning, a mere leaf.] (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. It is a woody climber
with ovate many-nerved leaves.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
betel
n : Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel
nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians [syn: {betel
pepper}, {Piper betel}]
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