NOUN
- seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia
How To Use betel nut In A Sentence
- One old woman chewed betel nut and nodded weakly as the bullets boiled in.
- Nadine has been chewing alot of the betel nut supari lollies which is sold in little foil packets strung together and suspended out the front of many shops in Pushkar. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
- The textiles are dyed with natural pigments, including a rich blue made from a mixture of indigo, rice whiskey, betel nut juice, rice husk residue, lime and sugar cane water.
- In the lush green foothills above town, I'd found every incline, even a slope that seemed too steep to climb, cultivated with longan, lychee, pineapple, betel nut or banana.
- The betel nut lay in slices on a white dish.
- The Annamese all chew betel nut.
- In the lush green foothills above town, I'd found every incline, even a slope that seemed too steep to climb, cultivated with longan, lychee, pineapple, betel nut or banana.
- Betel nuts, coconuts, rice, yams and the xylophone stretch right across west Africa, but had Indonesian origins.
- The combination of all these ingredients makes for a very tasty and refreshing after dinner treat; the plant enzymes, lime paste, and mild stimulant from the betel nut acts as a digestion enhancer and breath freshener. Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives
- Traditionally, the betel nut was chewed as a mild stimulant, but this is much less common today.
