areca
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of areca
First recorded in 1500–10; from New Latin (earlier English spellings reflect Portuguese or French ); all ultimately from Malayalam aṭaykka
Vocabulary lists containing areca
Example Sentences
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But betel chew—a mixture of areca nuts, betel leaves and slaked lime—is entirely different from datura.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The packaging company manufactures eco-friendly products, such as corrugated packaging, from fallen areca palm leaves and is valued at £48m.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2022
His representatives around the country bought spices, which Ishana shipped overseas: areca nuts to the Maldives, and pepper, cloves, nutmeg and mace to India.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
I dropped the needle on Mort Garson’s album Mother Earth’s Plantasia, and set about watering my areca palms and orchids and my string-of-pearls and lipstick plants.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2019
This set them on the wide path that led into the spacious circular compound of cobbled ground under the spreading areca nut tree, ringed with the houses of the village elders.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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