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单词 nectary
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nectaryn.

Brit. /ˈnɛkt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈnɛktəri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nectar n., -y suffix3.
Etymology: < nectar n. + -y suffix3. In sense 2 after post-classical Latin nectarium nectarium n.; compare -ary suffix1. Compare French nectaire (1769 in sense 2).
1. Perhaps: a (body of) sweet fluid, suggestive of nectar. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > sweet thing
sweetnessc725
sweeta1300
nectary1598
ambrosia1605
1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. T 3 Her folded eyes, Drowning themselues in their owne Nectaries.
2. Botany. A nectar-secreting gland in a flower or on another part of a plant; (also) a part of a flower that contains the secreted nectar.
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > nectar or honey-dew > part of plant secreting
honey gland1751
nectarium1753
nectary1759
nectar chamber1865
nectar gland1877
1759 B. Stillingfleet in tr. Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. p. xxix The part of the flower that contains honey is called The nectary.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 3 The tube of the blossom serves the purpose of a Nectary in many flowers, as in the Honey-suckle.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 222 The corolla consists of six..petals, enclosing a tuberculated bristled nectary.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. xiii. iii. 324 Some pierced the nectaries of the flowers with their fine bills.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 269 An arrangement which..facilitates the extraction of honey from the nectaries of flowers.
1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects ii. 47 Liquid food may..be obtained superficially—as, for instance, the nectar oozing from the nectaries in flowers.
1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 134 In many Vetches there are extra-floral nectaries, on the undersides of the stipules, which secrete nectar in sunny weather.
1976 T. Hooper Guide to Bees & Honey iv. x. 213 These nectaries are not just holes in the plant which allow sap to escape but active organs which select from the sap those substances which are to be secreted as nectar.
1988 Times 15 July 11/3 Nectar in an orchid is very hard to get at, being stored in small organs called nectaries situated right at the bottom of the deep flower corolla tubes.
2001 OG Nov. 18/3 Fava beans have extrafloral nectaries that release sugary nectar even when the flowers are not open.
3. Entomology. A cornicle of an aphid (formerly supposed to secrete honeydew). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > abdominal tube secreting fluid
siphonet1826
siphuncle1826
honey tube1841
nectary1890
siphunculus1939
1890 Cent. Dict. Nectary,..one of two little tubular organs in the abdomen of an aphis or plant-louse.
1898 A. S. Packard Text-bk. Entomol. 365 Busgen..observed that on reaching the air the drops issuing from the ‘nectary’ or ‘honey’ tube stiffened almost instantly into a wax-like mass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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