noun
areca palm; betel nut palm
Botanical name Areca catechu; the palm whose seeds are used in betel chewing. In Japanese, often referred to as 檳榔樹 (びんろうじゅ) for clarity.
See also: 檳榔樹
檳榔は熱帯アジアで広く栽培されている。
The areca palm is widely cultivated in tropical Asia.
檳榔の実は噛みタバコの原料として使われる。
The fruit of the areca palm is used as an ingredient in chewing tobacco.
noun
betel palm
Colloquial use; often refers to the same plant as sense 1, but 'betel palm' is a common name in English. In Japanese, 檳榔 is not typically distinguished from areca palm in everyday speech.
あの庭に檳榔が植えてあるよ。
There's a betel palm planted in that garden.
More explicit term for the areca palm tree, often used in botanical contexts to avoid ambiguity.
The kanji 檳榔 are ateji borrowed from Chinese, where they represent the areca palm. The reading びんろう is derived from the Chinese pronunciation, with a variant びにろう. The exact historical derivation is uncertain.