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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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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper
  3. n. Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
  4. 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. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.
  5. A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which arechewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by theinhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovatemanynerved leaves.
  6. n:100 n. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians