PANACEA

PRONUNCIATION: (pan-uh-SEE-uh)

MEANING: noun: A remedy for all difficulties or diseases; a universal cure.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin panacea, from Greek panakeia, from panakes (all-healing), from pan (all) + akos (cure). In Greek mythology, Panacea was the goddess of universal remedy. Earliest documented use: 1548.
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PAN-ACERA - bread so stale that in Mexico City they would walk on it

PAN ACE - bread and butter to a Madrid cardsharp, in the form of a high card up his sleeve

PAN AREA - a region where the subsoil forms a hard layer limiting penetration by plant roots