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‖ nectarium Bot.|nɛkˈtɛərɪəm| Also 8 -eum. Pl. nectaria. [mod.L.] = nectary 2.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Nectarium, among botanists,..a part of the corolla, sometimes, though more rarely the whole. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 75 As for the honey, it is extracted from that part of the flower called the nectareum. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 58 The honied essences lodged in the nectaria of flowers. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. iii. (1814) 145 Saccharine matter is found in the nectarium of flowers. 1851–9Broderip in Man. Sci. Enq. 399 Liquefied honey..might be placed in a little reservoir on the site of the nectarium. |