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noun
Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: feather palm
Narrower terms: betel palm, Areca catechu
History
Via Portuguese from Malayalam അടയ്ക്ക (aṭaykka), itself from Proto-Dravidian *aṭ-ay-kkāy (“areca nut”).
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