Be"tel (?), n. [Pg., fr. Tamil vettilei, prop. meaning, a mere leaf.] Bot.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many nerved leaves.

 

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