Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Philippine Islands the leaves of the betel-pepper (Piper Betle), which, together with the nuts of the betel-palm (Areca Cathècu) and a pinch of slaked lime, are used by the natives as a masticatory. Also called
itmo . Seebetel andbonga .
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Examples
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There is a plant with leaves after the shape and fashion of the ivy, which is a certain species of pepper which they call buyo, the use of which is common throughout the whole archipelago; and it is so excellent a specific against ulcerated teeth that I do not remember ever having heard it said that any native suffered from them, nor do they need to have them pulled.
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Finally when the members of the court had arranged themselves around their master, he loftily signaled for his buyo; Lewis, nothing daunted, motioned to his striker.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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He put into the basket the betel and the lime and the pungaman and the buyo, and crawled away.
Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner
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He cut the nuts and the pungaman into many small pieces, and the buyo-leaf too, and gave them to the monkeys and the other animals.
Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner
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The _buyo_ plant is set out on raised beds and trained
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Never removing his eyes from Lewis's face, the sultan completed the ceremony of the buyo, and after deliberately rolling a quid of betel-nut, lime-dust, and tobacco leaves, the august person stuffed it into his mouth.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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Advisers, wives, slaves, and boys with buyo-boxes followed his majesty, who was arrayed in a red silk sarong, grotesquely embroidered with glass beads, colored stones, and real pearls.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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_Buyo_ (_Piper betle_) (Tagálog, _Igmô_), is cultivated with much care in every province, as its leaf, when coated with lime made from oyster-shells and folded up, is used to coil round the areca-nut, the whole forming the _buyo_ (betel), which the natives of these
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Before Piang realized it, Sicto was negotiating with the owner, offering in trade his brass buyo, or betel-box, used for containing a preparation of the betel pepper, extensively chewed in the East.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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From time to time a dependent would come, bend the knee on the royal footstool and present the _buyo_ box, or a message, or whatever His Highness called for.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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