Nepenthes
Meaning of Nepenthes
noun
- a drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind.
- a plant of a genus that comprises the Old World pitcher plants.
via Latin from Greek nēpenthēs ‘dispelling pain’, from nē- ‘not’ + penthos ‘grief’; sense 2 is from modern Latin.
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Hyphenation of Nepenthes
Ne-penthes
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- Nepenthes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with Nepenthes
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