Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Betel

Betel (bē"t'l) , noun

[Portuguese, from Tamil vettilei, prop. meaning, a mere leaf.]

(Botany) 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.