BETEL
\bɪtˈɛl], \bɪtˈɛl], \b_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_l]\
Definitions of BETEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
By Princeton University
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Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small genus of East Indian palms (Palmae) whose leaves and nuts yield ARECOLINE. Its leaves and nuts have been used as masticatories, stimulants, and astringents in traditional medicine.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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The betel-nut, or nut of the areca palm, with lime and the leaves of the Betel-Pepper, is chewed by the Malays as a stimulant.
By Daniel Lyons
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A species of pepper, the leaves of which are chewed with the areea, or betel-nut, and lime, by the natives of the East Indies. Betel-nut, the nut of the areea-palm.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A species of pepper, cultivated in several parts of India. The East Indians are in the habit of chewing the leaves with lime and areca; and they give the name Betel to this preparation. It is used in all the equatorial countries of Asia. Betel is said to be tonic and astringent. It is also called Bette, Betre, Betle. See Areca.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The Piper betle (Piper b.); also the substance consisting of the leaves of this plant combined with lime and some astringent material like the areca nut (b. nut) or catechu. It is chewed by the East Indians for the stimulant and narcotic effect,
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
