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Definition of Betel pepper

1. Noun. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.

Definition of Betel pepper

1. Noun. An Asiatic plant, ''Piper betle'', whose leaves are used to wrap betel nuts for chewing ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Betel Pepper

Literary usage of Betel pepper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"But in the towns, incredible quan- leaf, or Betel -pepper, titles are every day sold in the markets. along with the betel-nut, as above de- w* *»i and piles ..."

2. Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and by Peter Lund Simmonds (1889)
"The leaf of the betel pepper (Piper Betle, Lin.; ... The betel pepper is cultivated at Zanzibar, where the use of the betelnut prevails, as it does in the ..."

3. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"It may be noted that one of the very few plants used in Tikopia as a remedy is the kavakava, which may be the betel pepper. I suggest, then, that the use of ..."

4. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1871)
"C Lnu-yc (leaf of the Betel-pepper. ... countries of the j Betel-pepper the Chinese authors notice , Xiao-chuti, ..."

5. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"And whilst the use of betel pepper, to which we shall next allude, is confined almost wholly to the Eastern nations, the common pepper is an article of ..."

6. Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference by Samuel Maunder (1855)
"The betel or pawn, chewed in the East by both sexes, like tobacco, consists of the fruit of the areca palm wrapt in leaves of the betel pepper plant. ..."

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