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UK
/ˈæɹɛkɐ/
]
NOUN
- any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
How To Use areca In A Sentence
- For commoners, it was umbrella hats made from palmyra or the dried leaf of arecanut palm conically folded like a conjurer's hat.
- Pinang, from the pinang or areca-palm, is the proper name of the island, but out of compliment to George IV. it was called Prince of Wales Island. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
- Products made out of biodegradable materials like sisal and areca spathes were also on show at the Town Hall.
- Extracts of areca catechu, rhus coppallina, diospyros virginiana, sassafrass albidium, and chenopodium ambrosiodes were found to produce tumors in rats.
- The road twists through areca palms and banana plantations and rice paddies.
- Then you take chopped up betel nut (or areca nut, which is similar to nutmeg in hardness and texture) and fold the leaf over the the ingredients. Trying Food in India « Colleen Anderson
- Both the areca nut and santonin may be given with the feed. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
- This year he got eight quintals of areca from his garden, which he sold for Rs.50,000, but even that was not enough to fulfil his interest commitments to the society.
- It consists of a dried paste that often includes tobacco, areca nuts, catechu, and scent or flavoring.
- Gutkha is a mixture of areca, catechu, betel nut, lime, tobacco and mint.