BETEL

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 4

The leaf of the betel e-r BirTboa pepper, ■ 1 by the Inhabitants of many parts of India th a nut of the areca palm tree and lime; whi#i wrapped in the betel leaf. It is acrid and i red. BETIIYLTJ8. in Entomology, a sen us of Hymenoplcthe family ProctorrupuU*. [s. 157]