nepenthes
noun
[ nɪˈpɛnθiːz ]
• 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.
Origin:
via Latin from Greek nēpenthēs ‘dispelling pain’, from nē- ‘not’ + penthos ‘grief’; sense 2 is from modern Latin.
