Definition of Nectars

1. Noun. (plural of nectar) ¹

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Definition of Nectars

1. nectar [n] - See also: nectar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nectars

nectaried
nectaries
nectariferous
nectariless
nectarine
nectarine tree
nectarines
nectarivorous
nectarize
nectarized
nectarizes
nectarizing
nectarless
nectarlike
nectarous
nectars (current term)
nectary
nectin
nectocalyces
nectocalyx
nectophore
nectophores
nectosack
nectostem
necturus
necturus maculosus
necyomancy
ned
nedaplatin
nedder

Literary usage of Nectars

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chhándogya Upanishad of the Sáma Veda: With Extracts from the Commentary by Rājendralāla Mitra, Śaṅkarācārya (1862)
"... the essences ;—they are the nectars of nectars: the Vedas are nectars, and thereof are they the nectars. SECTION VI. 1. Thereof the first named nectar ..."

2. Chronicles of the Crusades: Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of by Richard, Jean Joinville, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Maqrīzī (1848)
"How, in consequence of the illness of the two kings, the army viat closely pressed; and how they were comforted by the arrival of the nectars. ..."

3. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"... contain only cane-sugar Honey and the nectars of flowers contain cane-sugar together with inverted sugar; the sugar in the nectars of cactuses i» almost ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"Honey and the nectars of flowers contain cane- sugar together with inverted sugar ; the sugar in the nectars of cactuses is almost wholly cane-sugar. ..."

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