Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nectar-secreting structure located either within a flower or on a leaf or other part of a plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a part of a flower that contains or secretes a saccharine fluid.
- noun In entomology, one of two little tubular organs on the abdomen of an aphis or plant-louse, from which a sweet fluid like honey is exuded. Also called honey-tube, siphuncle, or cornicle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the
Illustration ofnasturtium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
gland that secretesnectar
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By some the interior limb of the corolla, when it consists only of one petal, is called the nectary J, whilst others apply that name to both the interior petal and its opposite anthera-bearing filament, considering the nectary as bila* - biate§.
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Even the nectary which is adherent to the upper surface of the pedicel in the normal flower disappears -- sometimes completely, at other tunes partially.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I expected, it is always the central or sub-central flower; but what is far more curious, the nectary, which is blended with the peduncle of the flowers, gradually lessens and quite disappears (588/1.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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A bumblebee landed on another, weighing down the bloom as it forced its tongue into the nectary, before droning away across the turf.
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We've planted it full of natives, with a couple of small eucalypts and lots of colorful, flowering, nectary things.
Distractions, distractions... Glenda Larke 2009
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Floral nectary structure and nectar chemical composition of some species from Robinson Crusoe Island (Chile).
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Gathering Nectar The bee gathers nectar from a flower by inserting its long proboscis down into the nectary.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Gathering Nectar The bee gathers nectar from a flower by inserting its long proboscis down into the nectary.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Between each leaflet there is a nectary gland on the leaf rhachis; in 1. edulis these are large (2 to 3 mm) and squashed transversely, an important character for identifying the species.
Chapter 8 1996
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Between each leaflet there is a nectary gland on the leaf rhachis; in 1. edulis these are large (2 to 3 mm) and squashed transversely, an important character for identifying the species.
Chapter 9 1990
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