nectariferous
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Petals 5, small and narrow, raised on a slender claw, at the summit of which is a nectariferous hollow.
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
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
The disk is hypogynous with five nectariferous glands which are alternate with the stamens.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Hypogynous disk of 5 nectariferous glands alternate with the stamens.
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
So are all Nectaries, whether hollow spurs, sacs, or other concavities in which nectar is secreted, and all nectariferous glands.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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