areca

It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.

They at length reached an open lot where a wretched hut stood off by itself surrounded by banana-plants and areca-palms.

Areca-nuts and copra are also exported in some quantities, more especially from Mūar.

Areca, a genus of lofty palms with pinnated leaves, and a drupe-like fruit enclosed in a fibrous rind.

With lime and the leaves of the betel-pepper, the areca-nuts when green form the celebrated masticatory of the East.