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nectarous

nectarous adjective: pertaining to or resembling nectar; sweet.

Adjective

nectarous (comparative more nectarous, superlative most nectarous)

  1. Pertaining to or resembling nectar; sweet.
    • Sylphs! if at noon the Fritillary droops, / With drops nectarous hang her nodding cups […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 204
    • Then did you, chivalrous Terence, hand forth, as to the manner born, that nectarous beverage.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

nectarous meaning in Urdu and Assamese

nectarous in Urdu

رس بھرا, شہد بھرا

nectarous in Assamese

nectarous
অমিয়া omia, অমিয় omio

Forms of nectarous

comparativemore nectarous
superlativemost nectarous

Origin of nectarous

From nectar + -ous.

Questions about nectarous

What does nectarous mean?
Nectarous means pertaining to or resembling nectar; sweet.
What is nectarous in Urdu?
Nectarous in Urdu is رس بھرا, شہد بھرا. See Nectarous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is nectarous?
Nectarous is an adjective.

Words near nectarous in the dictionary

  1. nectarlessness
  2. nectarlike
  3. nectarophagous
  4. nectarostigma
  5. nectarotheca
  6. nectarous
  7. nectars
  8. nectarthode
  9. nectarthodes
  10. nectary
  11. nectaryless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nectarous (page history and authors); nectarous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অমিয় (Assamese) (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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