nectariferousadj.
/ˌnɛktəˈrɪf(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˌnɛktəˈrɪf(ə)rəs/ Botany.
Bearing or producing nectar.
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nectarine1611
nectarean1624
nectarian1647
nectareal1648
nectareous?a1656
nectarous1667
nectariferous1760
nectiferous1824
nectarious1841
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xxix. 142 The Adonis had been join'd to the Ranunculus, but was parted from it again, on observing that it wanted the nectariferous Pore.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiii. 369 When they unfold their long tongue, and wipe its sweets from any nectariferous flower.
1882 G. Allen Colours of Flowers ii. 56 With separate petals,..and with a nectariferous cavity at their base.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 271 The bee's world is very largely a smell-world. But what if the nectariferous flower had no scent?
1961 Bot. Gaz. 123 123/2 In addition to nectariferous tissue becoming exposed in the region of the stylar furrows and around the raised outlets of the nectary, further nectariferous tissue extrudes from the base of the style.
1992 D. J. Mabberley Trop. Rain Forest Ecol. (ed. 2) 179 As nectar is replenished as it is removed, birds may defend clumps of nectariferous flowers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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