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nectariferous, a. Bot.|nɛktəˈrɪfərəs|
[See -ferous.]
Bearing or producing nectar.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xxix. (1765) 145 The Adonis had been join'd to the Ranunculus, but was parted from it again, on observing that it wanted the nectariferous Pore. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxiii. (1818) II. 369 When they unfold their long tongue, and wipe its sweets from any nectariferous flower. 1882G. Allen Colours of Flowers ii. 56 With separate petals,..and with a nectariferous cavity at their base. |