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nectar

[nek-ter] / ˈnɛk tər /
NOUN
sweet drink
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Warm, dry spring weather improves a nest’s chance of survival as it ensures a good nectar supply for the queen to develop her ovaries and good prey populations for her to feed the brood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

These included the date of the first flower, flower size, nectar sugar, flowering time, and the distance between flowers' anthers, or the pollen-producing part of the flower, and the stigma, the structure that receives pollen.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Flowers growing near water tend to produce nectar with more moisture in it, he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

They cannot afford to waste energy searching dried-up flowers for nectar and pollen that is no longer there.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

It is delicious, and I drink it in like nectar.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

But when Baby and colleagues teased out the contents of the nectars of N. khasiana and several other pitcher plants growing in their institute’s botanic garden, they found something unexpected.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023

Researchers wondered whether pollinators might be deterred by such nectars, but they discovered the opposite.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023

Look one way and you’ll see Gina mango nectars and Calamansi fruit sodas.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

It can also make luscious, ambrosial nectars that are syrupy sweet while still lively and refreshing, which can likewise grow more complex for decades.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021

After the Georgia legislature declared a prohibition against alcoholic beverages in 1907, Papa quit making or drinking beer—he believed in being law-abiding—and the churches started using fruit nectars instead of wine.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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