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nectars

nectars is the plural of nectar.

Meaning of nectar

Noun

nectar (countable and uncountable, plural nectars)

  1. The drink of the gods.
    • They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (broadly) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
  3. The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.

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Phrases with nectars

Questions about nectars

What is nectars the plural of?
Nectars is the plural of nectar.

Words near nectars in the dictionary

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

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