areca-nut

"Beetle boxes" here refer to the containers used to store the "leaf of the Piper betel [plant,] ... chewed with the dried areca-nut ... by the natives of India" (Crooke, 89).

Notes 2002

[239] For retail sale _bidas_ are prepared, consisting of a rolled betel-leaf containing areca-nut, catechu and lime, and fastened with a clove.

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

Poelo-Penang, _The Isle of the areca-nut_, separated by a narrow strait from the Malay Peninsula, was ceded to England in 1785 by the Rajah of

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

One more plantation, a grove of the stately areca-nut or betel trees, we determined to visit before taking the boat.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

The areca-nut palm is also plentiful in Singapore.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

The use of the areca-nut preserves the teeth from decay, but keeps them stained of a disgusting brick-red color.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

_Buyo_ (_Piper betle_) (Tagálog, _Igmô_), is cultivated with much care in every province, as its leaf, when coated with lime made from oyster-shells and folded up, is used to coil round the areca-nut, the whole forming the _buyo_ (betel), which the natives of these

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

On the fourth day she receives a liquid decoction of ginger, the roots of the _orai_ or _khaskhas_ grass, areca-nut, coriander and turmeric and other hot substances, and in some places a cake of linseed or sesamum.

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

In Europe a favourite dentifrice is prepared from the areca-nut.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

A short distance up stream, and midway between the mouth and the big rapids, there is a straggling village, called Ranggul, the houses of which, made of wattled bamboos and thatched with palm leaves, stand on piles, amid the groves of cocoa-nut and areca-nut palms, varied by clumps of smooth-leaved banana trees.

In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Charles Clifford 1903