Obsolete spelling of beat / Obsolete spelling of beet

plural of Phi Bete

(informal) The Phi Beta Kappa Society.

(informal) A member of that society.

(astronomy) A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.

An egg-shaped seed of the betel palm; wrapped in the leaves of the betel pepper and chewed.

An Asiatic plant, Piper betle, whose leaves are used to wrap betel nuts for chewing.

An Asiatic palm, Areca catechu, whose seeds are betel nuts.

an evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper / the seed of the betel palm, Areca catechu: the betel nut

plural of betel