Nectar
['nektə] or ['nɛktɚ]
解释:
(noun.) fruit juice especially when undiluted.
(noun.) a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
巴塞洛缪校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
(n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
录入:斯科特
解释:
n. the name given by Homer Hesiod Pindar &c. to the beverage of the gods giving life and beauty: a delicious beverage: the honey of the glands of plants.—adjs. Nectā′real Nectā′rean pertaining to or resembling nectar: delicious; Nec′tared imbued with nectar: mingled or abounding with nectar; Nectā′reous Nec′tarous pertaining to containing or resembling nectar: delicious.—adv. Nectā′reously in a nectareous manner.—n. Nectā′reousness the quality of being nectareous.—adjs. Nectā′rial; Nectarif′erous producing nectar or honey: having a nectary; Nec′tarine sweet as nectar.—n. a variety of peach with a smooth fruit.—n. Nec′tary the part of a flower which secretes the nectar or honey.
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娱乐性解释：
n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
整理:奥蒂斯
例句:
- Humble bees alone visit red clover, as other bees cannot reach the nectar. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Hasty people drink the nectar of existence scalding hot; I taste it cool as dew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Insects in seeking the nectar would get dusted with pollen, and would often transport it from one flower to another. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Now, let us suppose that the juice or nectar was excreted from the inside of the flowers of a certain number of plants of any species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Sweets to the sweet, mannling, and Mr. Bhaer offered Jo some, with a look that made her wonder if chocolate was not the nectar drunk by the gods. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
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