nectariferous

American  

[nek-tuh-rif-er-uhs] / ˌnɛk təˈrɪf ər əs /

adjective

Botany.

1. producing nectar.

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Etymology

Origin of nectariferous

First recorded in 1750–60; nectar + -i- + -ferous

Example Sentences

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nectariferous

Moreover, some few plants, such as certain poppies, which are not nectariferous, have guiding marks; but we might perhaps expect that some few plants would retain traces of a former nectariferous condition.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

So are all Nectaries, whether hollow spurs, sacs, or other concavities in which nectar is secreted, and all nectariferous glands.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

The disk is hypogynous with five nectariferous glands which are alternate with the stamens.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

It presents great varieties of form, such as a ring, scales, Disk. glands, hairs, petaloid appendages, &c., and in the progress of growth it often contains saccharine matter, thus becoming truly nectariferous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various