: a large usually mild heart-shaped chili pepper especially when fresh and dark green â compare ancho.
Meaning of ânemesisâ in the English Dictionary. See all translations. uk â /Ënem.É.sÉªs/ us â /Ënem.É.sÉªs/ plural nemeses literary. âº Someone's nemesis is a person or thing that is very difficult for them to defeat. âº (a cause of) punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided: The tax increases proved to be the president's political nemesis. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words.
1570s, Nemesis, Greek goddess of vengeance, personification of divine wrath, from Greek nemesis just indignation, righteous anger, literally distribution (of what is due), related to nemein distribute, allot, apportion one's due, from PIE root *nem- to divide, distribute, allot, to take (cf.