nectariferous
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The disk is hypogynous with five nectariferous glands which are alternate with the stamens.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
It presents great varieties of form, such as a ring, scales, Disk. glands, hairs, petaloid appendages, &c., and in the progress of growth it often contains saccharine matter, thus becoming truly nectariferous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striate, in an oblong head; scapose, spreading by runners.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Petals often nectariferous or reduced to staminodia or none.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
