Betel is valid Scrabble Word

Is betel a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for BETEL in dictionary:

NOUN:

the leaf of the betel-pepper which is chewed in the East along with the areca-nut and lime
the leaf of an Asian evergreen climbing plant, which in the East is chewed as a mild stimulant.
the plant, related to pepper, from which betel leaves are taken.
Asian climbing plant, the leaves and nuts of which can be chewed
A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.
Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a climbing plant

Words related to BETEL

betels8 siri4 sirih8

Words that contain BETEL

betels8 betelnut10 betelnuts11

How to use BETEL in a sentence

XVI THE BETEL NUT One half the world does not know how the other half lives.
Friend offers friend the betel nut box just as Scotsmen offered the snuff-box in the hearty old days that are passing away.
Lastly, the betel leaf must be fresh, and in a hot climate green leaves do not keep their freshness without special care.
It only remains to say that the betel nut is not used in the East for tooth-powder, though the natives believe that the practice of chewing it saves them from toothache.
They were received with great courtesy and conducted to seats, where a plentiful supply of tobacco and betel awaited them.
He saw his home town, and it made him happy to look at his fields of sugarcane and bananas, his groves of betel and cocoanuts.
After he had begun to chew his betel, he began to think, and he pondered for eight days how he could accomplish his hard journey.
But when she had pressed it upon him many times, he took the betel and chewed it.
He put into the basket the betel and the lime and the pungaman and the buyo, and crawled away.
All the animals were rejoiced to see the Tortoise coming with a basket, for they all wanted to chew betel.

Two or three boys awoke and watched him while they prepared and chewed betel nut and lime wrapped in green leaves.
His broken-fanged teeth were stained black by betel- nut, the juice of which he spat upon the ground.
Nanda presents them with cloth and betel and they depart elated at the news.
They take a leaf, smear it with the lime paste, which is intended to increase the saliva, and then wrap it around the powder of the betel nut.
A person convicted of stealing betel, fowls, or coconuts shall pay the owner double the value and be fined seven dollars, half of which fine is to be received by the owner.
This is to Peruvians what opium is to the Turk, betel to the Malay, and tobacco to the Yankee.
He ran at full speed to the place where U Saw was placidly chewing betel and waiting the upshot of the affair.
A real Priscilla, somewhat strange in dress to be sure and with a mouth streaked with betel nut, but Priscilla just the same.
They were short, and strongly built, with a mop of coarse hair cut straight all around, and thick lips stained with betel nut.
The Burma girls were not chewing betel nut, which added to their distinction.
He causes betel trees to grow, then cuts the nuts into bits and scatters them on the ground.
Cooked rice was moulded into the form of an alligator, and was spotted with red, betel saliva.
Moistening a leaf of the betel, together with a grain of lime, they rub the one upon the other, roll them together, and then place them in the mouth.
The practice of betel chewing is not confined to the men, for the few women whom we had seen alongside the ship in Coral Haven, had their teeth blackened by it.
Still betel chewing, although a very general habit, is by no means universally practised, for many elderly people retained the original whiteness of the teeth.
Betel nut is not so generally used in the South of China as among the Southern Islands, and in the north of China it is a luxury, as the pepper does not grow freely there.

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