areca
- noun
- /əˈrɛkə/
- Indian
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areca
- Canarium almonds, wasek nuts, pigs, lime, areca nuts, fish nets, small baskets, love magic, dances, canoes.
Examples
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The bov is given a buah pinang (roasted, hard areca nut about an inch in diameter) to bite on and stop his teeth from chattering.
Academic text (1991) -
In traditional ceremonies, offerings may include areca nuts along with other items like fruits and flowers.
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He puts more areca leaves on the fire.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's areca.
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His mother, P. Dingirimenike, sits close by, talking and cutting areca nuts, which people chew like tobacco.
Blog text (31) -
In Thailand, there is archaeological evidence of areca, betel, and lime dating back to between 7,500 and 9,000 years ago, suggesting that it is one of the earliest known psychoactive substances.
Blog text (24) -
He wraps for me a bit of areca nut with a paste of wet lime in a leaf of the betel pepper and bids me chew it.
Blog text (22) -
The betel nut is the seed of the tall tropical palm known as the areca palm.
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People in many Southeast Asian countries often chew areca nuts combined with betel leaves.
Synonyms
A tall palm tree from Southeast Asia that produces betel nuts chewed in many cultures
A tropical palm tree from Southeast Asia that makes betel nuts for chewing
A tropical palm tree that produces betel nuts with a hard, stringy outer husk
Compounds
- Indian
A tall palm tree from Southeast Asia that produces betel nuts chewed in many cultures
- Indian
A seed from a palm tree chewed with betel leaves and lime in South and Southeast Asia
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word areca comes from a local South and Southeast Asian name for the palm tree, a name European visitors used when they first met the plant. That's why areca now means the tall tropical palm and its egg-shaped 'areca nuts', the nuts often chewed with betel.
