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BETEL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians

Synonyms:

betel; betel pepper; Piper betel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("betel" is a kind of...):

pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)

Holonyms ("betel" is a member of...):

genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A leaf of a vine from the betel pepper

Synonyms:

betel; betel leaf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("betel" is a kind of...):

foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

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