nectarine
Americannoun
noun
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a variety of peach tree, Prunus persica nectarina
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the fruit of this tree, which has a smooth skin
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Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine – good God, how fine.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010
Sigmund Franz Schultz, formerly of Woonsocket, R.I., is the theater man, teamed with a couple of aristocratic young backers, one named Binky and the other called Lord Nectarine of Walham Green.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, the Nectarine stone sometimes produces a Peach, and a Peach stone often produces a Nectarine.
From Gardening for the Million by Pink, Alfred
Some have a powerful scent that is very near that of a ripe Nectarine; of this the best example I know is the old rose Goubault.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude
"The Elrouge Nectarine is also a native of our own, the name being the reverse of Gourle, a famous Nurseryman at Hogsden, in King Charles the Second's time, by whom it was raised."
From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel
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