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Areca

//əˈriːkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests.
  2. 2
    any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts wordnet

Etymology

Via Portuguese from Malayalam അടയ്ക്ക (aṭaykka), itself from Proto-Dravidian *aṭ-ay-kkāy (“areca nut”).

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