nectareous
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of nectareous
1700–10; < Latin nectareus of, belonging to nectar < Greek nektáreos like nectar, divinely fragrant, equivalent to néktar nectar + -eos adj. suffix; see -eous
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Whereas the fact is, that a butterfly only occasionally, and as a matter of accident rather than rule, derives her own nectareous food from the flowers of the plant, whose leaves nourish her caterpillar progeny.
From British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species by W. S. (William Stephen) Coleman
Mark where yon tree rewards the stony shower With fruit nectareous or the balmy flower.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
Press nectareous Cyder from my loaded Trees, Print the sweet Butter, turn the Drying Cheese.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
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.
From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies
Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat; A trivet table, and ignobler seat, The prince appoints; but to his sire assigns The tasteful inwards, and nectareous wines.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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