pentas

From the genus name Pentas.

pentas (plural pentas)

1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Pentas, especially the Egyptian starcluster, Pentas lanceolata.
   • 2003, Norman Winter, Tough-as-nails flowers for the South, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 38:

     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.

• patens, pesant, septan, Stepan

• IPA^(key): /ˈpentas/
• Rhymes: -entas
• Syllabification: pen‧tas

pentas

1. present of penti

Inherited from Malay pentas

• IPA^(key): [pənˈtas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Hyphenation: pen‧tas

pentas (plural pentas-pentas)

1. floor to have a show
2. floor for kitchen and bedroom

• “pentas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

pentas (Jawi spelling ڤنتس, plural pentas-pentas or pentas²)

1. stage

• "pentas" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017