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Betel palm   /bˈɛtəl pɑm/   Listen
Betel palm

noun
1.
Southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk).  Synonym: Areca catechu.






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"Betel palm" Quotes from Famous Books



... of September we started for the village of Chela, which lies west from Churra, at the embouchure of the Boga-panee on the Jheels. The path runs by Mamloo, and down the spur to the Jasper hill (see chapter xxviii): the vegetation all along is very tropical, and pepper, ginger, maize, and Betel palm, are cultivated around small cottages, which are only distinguishable in the forest by their yellow thatch of dry Calamus (Rattan) leaves. From Jasper hill a very steep ridge leads to another, called Lisouplang, which is hardly so high as Mamloo; the rocks are the same ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker



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