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Nectar   /nˈɛktər/   Listen
Nectar

noun
1.
A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
2.
Fruit juice especially when undiluted.
3.
(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal.  Synonym: ambrosia.



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"Nectar" Quotes from Famous Books



... worse in the city than in the country. As soon as the young are grown, about the middle of June, they appear in flocks and attack the nuts of the Persian walnut. At first, before the shell has hardened, they penetrate the nut apparently for the nectar which is the substance of the immature kernel. When the shell can no longer be penetrated they continue to eat away the husk, which is equally fatal to the nut. This continues until late in July, when the squirrels take over. Fortunately squirrels ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting - Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 • Various
... should we invoke the presence of the gods,—we, who can become godlike ourselves! We ourselves are the deities of the present age. For us shall the tables be spread with ambrosia; for us shall the nectar flow." ...
— Mrs. General Talboys • Anthony Trollope
... qu'en secret tu redoutes, Quand sur ton sein il cuve son nectar, Ces feux dont s'indignaient les voutes Ou plane encor l'aigle du ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville
... is this nectar of the gods poured out on our New England hills; but slowly, filtered through the closely wrought fibres of the acer saccharinum, absorbing new sweetness, and gaining a more delicate flavor at each step of its progress, ...
— The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 - Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 • Various
... earth the miner Toiled and laboured day by day, Wrenching from the miser mountain Brilliant treasure where it lay. And the artist worn and weary Wrought with labour manifold That the king might drink his nectar From a goblet ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar


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