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

Borrowed 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, 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)

1. stage

• “pentas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.