Lexicographical Neighbors of Betelnut
Literary usage of Betelnut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company: Being Curious Reminiscences by William Carey (1907)
"betelnut. The betelnut tree is one of the most graceful of the palm tribe.
It is a native of all the countries of Asia within the tropics, and is cultivated ..."
2. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"Some take three fragments of ripe betelnut ... The idea of divorce is thus
intimately connected in the minds of women with these three pieces of betelnut. ..."
3. A Dictionary, Gujarátí and English by Shápurjí Edaljí (1868)
"betelnut, the fruit of ... J|Jl ^IX^betelnut | gathered when ripe and hard, and
dried in the sun ; (aii^ft ..."
4. Principal Heads of the History and Statistics of the Dacca Division (1868)
"After rice comes the betelnut, which grows very abundantly in this and in the
... I scarcely know a prettier and more graceful tree than the betelnut. ..."
5. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1871)
"... that the best betelnut is brought by vessels to China and that these growing
m China are inferior sorts, namely Ta-fn-lnu. ..."
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