betel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: betel	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
betel n Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians Synonym(s): betel, betel pepper, Piper betel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Betel \Be"tel\ (b[emac]"t'l), n. [Pg., fr. Tamil ve[tsdot][tsdot]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.