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  • noun Plural form of nectary.

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Examples

  • Above the nectaries is a 5-angled crown, the extremity of the receptacle; in each angle a black anther.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • The evolution of nectaries in late Cretaceous flowers signals the beginning of the mutualism between hymenopterans and angiosperms.

    Pollination Wikipedia 2009

  • They have long beaks for probing nectaries, extended by even longer tongues.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • They have long beaks for probing nectaries, extended by even longer tongues.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • They bite holes in the flowers near the nectaries and extract the nectar through the hole instead of visiting the flowers “legitimately”.

    Bumblebee 2008

  • She had a passion for achievement; she attempted the most difficult things, close racemes, the tiniest corollas, heaths, nectaries of the most variegated hues.

    Honorine 2007

  • She had a passion for achievement; she attempted the most difficult things, close racemes, the tiniest corollas, heaths, nectaries of the most variegated hues.

    Honorine 2007

  • Next to occur would have been the evolution of nectaries, nectar-secreting structures, to lure the pollinators.

    False Fear? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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