The betel is a creeping-plant with an aromatic leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Old Jack] Reference
The betel is a species of pepper, the leaf of which very much resembles that of the black pepper, but is highly aromatic and pungent. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Strictly speaking, "betel" is the leaf of a climbing plant (buyo) that is chewed with the nut. From Wordnik.com. [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference
She escaped a year again and through Apne-Aap has started her own "betel" shop (a digestive snack). From Wordnik.com. [Sold by Patricia McCormick: Questions] Reference
Perhaps the columnist meant "betel" and not beetle nut ... fact checking is fundamental. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The "betel," or "pawn" as it is called by the Hindoos, is a compound substance, and its component parts are a leaf, a nut, and some quicklime. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
A nut, which Fleming thought was a kind of betel; the tree is a fine, large-spreading one, and the leaves palmate. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
She may not chew betel-leaves, should eat only once. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The Chinese, in order to blacken them, chew what is called “betel” or. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
They grow the betel-vine, and in Orissa the areca and cocoanuts, besides doing ordinary cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
A native can go a great number of hours without food if he has his betel; it is said to be stomachical. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Isidro, opened his mouth only to drule betel-juice, it was Isidro who, in Isidro's voice, answered the questions. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Then he takes the nut away and gives it to the woman of his fancy, wrapped up in betel-leaf, and she will love him. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The fact that everyone else chews betel nut, or plays mah-jongg, does not mean that I will take up these practices. From Wordnik.com. [Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries] Reference
Men gamble, and women gossip and chew betel-nut; the peddler likewise shows his bargain-counter wares at the club-house. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
In Betul the relatives of the widow take the second husband before Maroti's shrine, where he offers a nut and some betel-leaf. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
His sacred thread was confiscated and being planted in the ground grew up into the first betel-vine, which he was set to tend. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
If the film was absolutely accurate, he adds, "the king would have betel-nut-stained teeth and Anna would look like Austin Powers.". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Treatment] Reference
If the film was absolutely accurate, he adds, "the king would have betel-nut-stained teeth, and Anna would look like Austin Powers.". From Wordnik.com. [Making A Modern Day 'King And I'] Reference
Certainly a cup of tea is more refreshing than the fragment of betel nut wrapped up in a leaf and enclosed in a piece of gold paper. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Golden pipes and betel-boxes show the perfection of the goldsmith's art, and metal statues vie with those of sculptured wood or stone. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The lake is in betel nut country; look for groves of the mild stimulant, which is popular with Taiwanese truck drivers and other workers. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan’s Mountain Retreats] Reference
The betel-vine is grown principally in the northern Districts of Saugor, Damoh and Jubbulpore and in those of Berar and the Nagpur plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
After the early repast, both men and women are constantly being offered betel-nut to masticate, and cigars or cigarettes, according to choice. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The basket containing the split pieces of betel-nut is then brought in and uncovered, and the contents examined to ascertain the will of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
In Bengal, however, Barai and Tamboli are distinct castes, the occupations of growing and selling the betel-leaf being there separately practised. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
He is then taken to the malguzar's house and presents to him Rs. 1-4-0, a cocoanut and some betel-vine leaf as the price of his assent to the marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
To the newly-arrived European, it is very displeasing to have to converse with a native betel-eater, whose teeth and lips appear to be smeared with blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
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