BETEL PALM

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Meaning:

Southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)

Synonyms:

Areca catechu; Areca palm; betel palm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("betel palm" is a kind of...):

areca (any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts)

Meronyms (parts of "betel palm"):

areca nut; betel nut (seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia)