Nepenthes

Meaning of Nepenthes

noun
  1. a drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind.
  2. 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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