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n. An evergreen Indo-Malayan climbing or trailing shrub (Piper betle), having usually ovate leaves used to wrap betel nuts.

n. Either of two plants often used in combination

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.

n. A species of pepper, Piper betle, a creeping, or climbing plant, a native of the East Indies, natural order Piperaceæ.

n. A piece of betel-nut.

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

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pepper vine    true pepper   

paan    areca   

Gretel    kettle    metal    mettle    nettle    petal    resettle    settle    unsettle   

Pinang    betel nut    arrack    Areca    Coco    thanar    coca    horse-chestnut    Cinchona    bhang