Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
betel .
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Examples
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P. betle and O. sanctum could be used as source of a pesticide of plant origin to combat the above three pathogens of rice in the field.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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Fresh leaves of P. betle, O. sanctum, N. arbor-tristis and C. limon were collected, washed thoroughly in tap water and sterile distilled water, oven dried at 45 _ 2 C and ground to obtain 1 kg dry powder from each.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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This is the first record for the control of three rice diseases in vivo using P. betle or O. sanctum leaf extracts.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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_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
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Persoon, in his description of areca catechu, makes the following observation: E fructu ab extima pellicula libero, simul cum foliis piperis betle, addito pauxillo calcis ex ostreis, fit masticatorium, quod Indiani continue volvunt in ore, ut malus anhelitus corrigatur, et dentes ac stomachus roborentur.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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During our conference with these people they were all busily employed in eating the fruit spike of the piper betle, * which they first thickly covered with shell-lime; after chewing it for some time, they spit it out into the hand of the attendant slave who completes the exhaustion of this luxurious morceau by conveying it to his own mouth.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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The betel-vine is the leaf of _Piper betel_ L., the word being derived from the Malayalam _vettila_, 'a plain leaf, 'and coming to us through the Portuguese _betre_ and _betle_.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Hydroxychavicol, isolated from the chloroform extraction of the aqueous leaf extract of Piper betle L.,
BioMed Central - Latest articles Intzar Ali 2010
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He is married to an Indian woman, a native of the ifland of Timor, and he lives in the fame manner as the inhabitants of Savu, whofe language he fpeaks better than any other; like them too he fits on the ground and chews betle, and has fo perfedly adopted their manners, that he is an abfolute Indian, except in drefs and complexion.
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- Boil 3 leaves of betel (Piper betle in 3 liters of water until
Chapter 16 1994
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