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Definition of Arecas
1. areca [n] - See also: areca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arecas
Literary usage of Arecas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"The young arecas are then between two and three feet high, and have four or ...
At the one hoeing, for every four arecas, it must have a bullock-load of ..."
2. Gardening (1904)
"arecas that have shown signs of the "yellows" in the early spring will frequently
outgrow this weakness during the warm weather, though when the ..."
3. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1875)
"It is shaded by numerous arecas and gnarled tamarinds, the age of which would
seem to ... The feathery plumes of the arecas, and the strong branches of the ..."
4. A Malayalam and English Dictionary by Hermann Gundert (1872)
"Thick pap or paste, water in which arecas have been boiled, ... o>alm)oo dark
colour Vi. boiled arecas e>sf)<»S ) a mod. potter's clay red earth. ..."
5. Botanical Guide Through the Phipps Conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny by Gustave Guttenberg (1894)
"This genus. is closely allied to the arecas. [sJ Arec'a lutes'cens, (Arec, ...
The most important of the arecas is Areca Catechu, of the East Indies; ..."
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