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pentas

pentas noun: any of the flowering plants of the genus Pentas, especially the Egyptian starcluster, Pentas lanceolata.

Noun

pentas (plural pentas)

  1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Pentas, especially the Egyptian starcluster, Pentas lanceolata.
    • The next step may be the most crucial to happiness with your pentas. If your soil is acidic and you grow azaleas, camellias, or blueberries with ease, then add lime to your pentas' planting area.2003, Norman Winter, Tough-as-nails flowers for the South, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 38

Proper noun capitalized: Pentas

Pentas

  1. (plural) plural of Penta

Forms of pentas

pluralpentas

Origin of pentas

From the genus name Pentas.

Questions about pentas

What does pentas mean?
Pentas means any of the flowering plants of the genus Pentas, especially the Egyptian starcluster, Pentas lanceolata.
What part of speech is pentas?
Pentas can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pentas?
The plural of pentas is pentas.

Words near pentas in the dictionary

  1. pentaresistance
  2. pentaresistant
  3. pentaribonucleotide
  4. pentaribonucleotides
  5. pentarsic
  6. pentas
  7. pentasaccharide
  8. pentasaccharides
  9. pentasectible
  10. pentaselenide
  11. pentaselenides

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