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panaceas

panaceas is the plural of panacea.

Meaning of panacea

Noun

panacea (plural panaceas or panaceae or panaceæ)

  1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
  2. A solution to all problems.
    • A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
  3. (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
    • There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    allheal, woundwort

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Questions about panaceas

What is panaceas the plural of?
Panaceas is the plural of panacea.

Words near panaceas in the dictionary

  1. panacaea
  2. panacaeas
  3. panacea
  4. panaceae
  5. panacean
  6. panaceas
  7. panaceist
  8. panaceists
  9. panacetylated
  10. panaceæ
  11. panache

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