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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

betel n 1: Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians [syn: betel, betel pepper, Piper betel]