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Meaning of nepenthe by felipe lorenzo del rio




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nepenthe
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Also nepente or nepentes, as some companions point out. From Greek ne- negative prefix and penthos, pain, affliction, misfortune : Drink of the gods, medicine against pain and melancholy, forgetting drug that Homer speaks of in the Odyssey, probably opium, which was mixed with wine. In the eighteenth century Linnaeus named a genus of carnivorous plants and climbers native to Southeast Asia, also called jar plants or monkey cups of the nepentaceae family.

  

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