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BETEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
Synonyms:
betel; betel pepper; Piper betel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("betel" is a kind of...):
pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)
Holonyms ("betel" is a member of...):
genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A leaf of a vine from the betel pepper
Synonyms:
betel; betel leaf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("betel" is a kind of...):
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
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