nectar

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈnɛk.tə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈnɛk.təɹ/

Noun

nectar

1. (chiefly mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.

2. (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. [from 16th c.]
3. (botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

• nectarine
• nectarous
• nectary

Translations

• German: Nektar
• Italian: nettare
• Portuguese: néctar, néctar dos deuses
• Russian: некта́р
• Spanish: néctar

Translations

• German: Nektar
• Italian: nettare
• Portuguese: néctar
• Russian: некта́р
• Spanish: néctar

Translations

• German: Nektar
• Italian: nettare
• Portuguese: néctar dos deuses
• Russian: некта́р

Verb

nectar (nectars, present participle nectaring; past and past participle nectared)

1. (intransitive) To feed on nectar.
   • 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year (page 123)

     On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.

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