Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as nectarean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean.

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  • adjective Alternative form of nectarous.

Etymologies

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Borrowed from Classical Latin nectareus ("of nectar”, “tinged with nectar”, “sweet as nectar"), from Ancient Greek νεκτάρεος (nektareos, "sweet as nectar”, “fragrant"), which is derived from νέκταρ (nektar, "nectar"). Can also be analysed as nectar +‎ -eous.

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Examples

  • Beautiful euro student with natural nectareous knockers hirsute crotch and axillary cavities.

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  • The citruses are very prominent on me, but, smelled alongside woods and resins, they appear ripe, nectareous and languid, rather than sparkly, fresh and tangy.

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  • The citruses are very prominent on me, but, smelled alongside woods and resins, they appear ripe, nectareous and languid, rather than sparkly, fresh and tangy.

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  • Whether he disturbed the sweet influences of the honey-moon by his intrusive presence, or permitted that nectareous satellite to fill her horns and wax and wane in peace before he sought to bring the bridegroom down to the things of earth, are questions which I must leave to the discretion of my readers to settle, each for himself or herself, according to their own notions of the proprieties of the case.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • QUOTATION: Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice!

    Quotations 1919

  • My very dear Friend, -- I have been intending every day to write to tell you that the Cyprus wine is as nectareous as possible, so fit for the gods, in fact, that I have been forced to leave it off as unfit for

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • Higher and higher wheels the great sun, driving the river mist before it and sending down through the softly whispering foliage a thousand shafts of burnished gold that seek out the violet, drain the nectareous dewdrop from its chalice and kiss the grape until its youthful sap changes to empurpled blood beneath the passionate caress.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • The scented clover field -- the white campions dot it here and there -- yields a rich, nectareous food for ten thousand bees, whose hum comes together with its odour on the air.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Juice, bee buried in its own, 168. divine nectareous, 344. nectarean, 577.

    Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

  • She consented that the village maiden should manufacture yeast, both liquid and in cakes; and should brew a certain kind of beer, nectareous to the palate, and of rare stomachic virtues; and, moreover, should bake and exhibit for sale some little spice-cakes, which whosoever tasted would longingly desire to taste again.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

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