betel-nuts

They have, however, many sorts of vegetables, plantains, yams, sweet potatoes, and raw sago; and they chew up vast quantities of sugar-cane, as well as betel-nuts, gambir, and tobacco.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

"Let us pick betel-nuts, and throw them down on the bagkang."

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

By and by, when the bagkang-stems had grown so tall as almost to reach the clusters of betel-nuts at the top of the trunk, the boy and girl said to each other.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

[104] The tree that bears betel-nuts, and is commonly called

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

But soon she arranged a little shrine (tambara [121]) under the great tree, and, having placed there a white bowl with a few betel-nuts and some buyo-leaf as an offering for her son, she crouched on the ground and prayed for his life to the god in the sky.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

The magic buyo, however, is unusual: it is very likely native Ilocano belief, or else a detail borrowed from the Ilocanos 'near neighbors, the Tinguian (see Cole, 18-19, Introduction, for betel-nuts with magic powers).

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

At the scenting ceremony seven married girls dressed in new clothes dyed yellow with turmeric conduct the bridegroom round the central post; one holds a dish containing rice, mango leaves, myrobalans and betel-nuts, and a second sprinkles water from a small pot.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

And as soon as they began to pick, the betel-nuts became so big and heavy that the bagkang-plants fell down when the betel-nuts dropped on them.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

As soon as he arrived at the gates of the palace, a deputation from the Sultan, with an officer at their head, came to present him with a richly-ornamented box filled with betel-nuts.

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

Now, when the S'iring heard her prayer, he took some betel-nuts, and went to the place where the boy's body lay.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner