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nectarine

/ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/US/ˌnɛktəˈɹiːn/

nectarine noun: a cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.

nectarine: a cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin
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Noun

nectarine (plural nectarines)

  1. A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
    • Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost: This to be understood of the most tender and delicate Wall-fruit, not finished before; do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the Nectarine and like delicate...1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium...
    • What wond’rous Life in this I lead!
      Ripe Apples drop about my head;
      The Luscious Clusters of the Vine
      Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine;
      The Nectaren, and curious Peach,
      Into my hands themselves do reach;
      Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,
      Insnar’d with Flow’rs, I fall on Grass.1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Garden,” stanza 5, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Nonesuch, 1923, pp. 49-50
  2. (obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine.
    • He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls...1628 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509

Adjective

nectarine (comparative more nectarine, superlative most nectarine)

  1. (obsolete) Nectarous; pertaining to or resembling nectar.
    • […] to their supper-fruits they fell,
      Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
      Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
      On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book 4, lines 329-332

nectarine meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic

nectarine in Tamil

இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும்

nectarine in Urdu

آڑو کی ایک قسم, ایک طرح کا شفتالو

nectarine in Tagalog

fruit
nektarina

nectarine in Arabic

fruit
دُرَّاق durrāq
More languagesFewer languages
nectarine in Persian
شلیل šalil

Synonyms of nectarine

Forms of nectarine

Noun
pluralnectarines
Adjective
comparativemore nectarine
superlativemost nectarine

Origin of nectarine

From nectar + -ine.

Words formed from nectarine

Questions about nectarine

What does nectarine mean?
Nectarine means a cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
What is nectarine in Tamil?
Nectarine in Tamil is இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். See Nectarine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nectarine?
Nectarine can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce nectarine?
Nectarine is pronounced /ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/.
What is the plural of nectarine?
The plural of nectarine is nectarines.

Words near nectarine in the dictionary

  1. nectaried
  2. nectaries
  3. nectariferous
  4. nectariless
  5. nectarilyma
  6. nectarine
  7. nectarines
  8. nectaring
  9. nectarinid
  10. nectarinids
  11. nectariniid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nectarine (page history and authors); nectarine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nectarine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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