NOUN
- southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)
How To Use Areca palm In A Sentence
- The road twists through areca palms and banana plantations and rice paddies.
- The demand is highest for red palms and areca palms,’ he says.
- A popular stimulant in the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia, is the fruit of the areca palm, Areca catechu, which grows wild in Sumatra and the Philippines and is cultivated in other regions.
- The areca palm, for example, is particularly fond of toluene, a by-product of glue that can be harmful when it combines with oxygen.
- All the paintings have been done on the spathe of the areca palm, called ‘paala’ in Malayalam.
- The nuts are then crushed with lime and catechu, a scarlet and astringent extract made by boiling chips of wood from the areca palm.
