betel

[ UK /bɪtˈɛl/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛtəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper
  2. Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
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How To Use betel In A Sentence

  • High above us, the great heptagon of the Winter sky: Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, and Castor (with Saturn nearby) - with Betelgeuse in the center and the Milky Way cascading through, just to the left of Orion.
  • Using behavioral sensitization animal models, poly-drug abuse about tramadol and betel quid extract was investigated in psychopharmacological profiles.
  • The Annamese all chew betel nut.
  • It is a treat to watch a veteran betel chewer go about the serious business of betel chewing.
  • Even older women who chew betel regularly make a point of how little tobacco they use within the quid, and cautioned other chewers of the strength of the tobacco.
  • This plate holds a blouse piece, betel leaves and nuts, green bangles, packets of haldi-kumkum, flowers, a small packet of chivda, puffed rice ladoos and chaklis. Archive 2007-10-01
  • Pan, or betel nut (seed of the betel palm) eaten with lime, is taken after meals and often throughout the day.
  • Chen said the council's plan is to ban the planting of betel trees on mountainsides with a gradient of more than 30 degrees.
  • The teeth of these people also, whatever they may suffer in their colour by chewing betel, are an object of great attention: The ends of them, both in the upper and under jaw, are rubbed with a kind of whetstone, by a very troublesome and painful operation, till they are perfectly even and flat, so that they cannot lose less than half a line in their length. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
  • The name Betelgeuse is from the Arabic Ibt al Jauzah, or Armpit of the Central One, via a long line of intermediate names. Intelligent Design offers biblical alternative to Darwinian evolution, Dembski says - The Panda's Thumb
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