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betel

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be·tel  (btl)
n.
An evergreen Indo-Malayan climbing or trailing shrub (Piper betle), having usually ovate leaves used to wrap betel nuts.
[Portuguese, from Malayalam vettila, veila, from Tamil veilai.]
betel [bee-tl]
Noun
an Asian climbing plant, the leaves and nuts of which can be chewed [Malayalam (language of SW India) vettila]
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Noun1.betelbetel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
betel pepper, Piper betel
genus Piper, Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
pepper vine, true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper


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Upon the car, which was drawn by four richly caparisoned zebus, stood a hideous statue with four arms, the body coloured a dull red, with haggard eyes, dishevelled hair, protruding tongue, and lips tinted with betel.
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It was as though they were passing along a beaten highway in the center of a civilized community; and yet she knew that the men who lolled upon the verandahs, puffing indolently upon their cigarettes or chewing betel nut, were all head hunters, and that along the verandah rafters above them hung the grisly trophies of their prowess.
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Two or three boys awoke and watched him while they prepared and chewed betel nut and lime wrapped in green leaves.
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