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noun(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
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nouna sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinatorstype of:
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nounfruit juice especially when undilutedtype of:
Definition that contains nectar
- ambrosia a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
- honeysuckle shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers
- sulla perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop
- lory small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits
- hoya any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers
- nectary a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar
- beebread a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
- nectar-rich of plants that are rich in nectar
- gliricidia any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous
- carduus nutans Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar