Name of the tree and fruit of a genus of palms, of which one species (A. Catechu) bears nuts of the size of a nutmeg, which many inhabitants of…

betel nut n. the nut or fruit of the Areca Palm (see areca, n.); so misnamed (by Europeans) because it is chewed with the betel leaf. Hence betel-nu…

(With capital initial.) A genus of trees, family Sterculiaceæ, natives of western tropical Africa; esp. C. acuminata, which has been introduced…