Obs. [a. Arab. faufel.] = ARECA.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., V. vi. (ed. 7), 545. The plant of Pepper is sowne at the roots of other trees, but specially at the roote of that Indian tree, which is called Faufell.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 684. The Betel and Faufel (the first of the Pepper, the latter of the Palm kind). Ibid., 766. The Indians chew the Leaves instead of Betel with the Faufel or Arequa.
1755. Johnson, Faufel, the fruit of a species of the palm-tree.
And in later Dicts.
