Definition of Betelnut

1. a seed chewed as a stimulant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Betelnut

beteeme
beteemed
beteemes
beteeming
beteems
betel
betel leaf
betel leaves
betel nut
betel palm
betel pepper
betelguese
betell
betelling
betells
betelnut (current term)
betelnuts
betels
betentacled
betes
beth
beth hamidrash
bethabara
bethabara wood
bethanechol
bethanechol chloride
bethanidine
bethanidine sulfate
bethank
bethanked

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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