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

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

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

Hypogynous disk of 5 nectariferous glands alternate with the stamens.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striate, in an oblong head; scapose, spreading by runners.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Corolla bell-shaped, 5-cleft; the lobes convolute in the bud; the tube furnished with 5 longitudinal linear appendages opposite the lobes, which cohere by their middle, while their edges are folded inward, forming a nectariferous groove.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

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