nectariferous

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Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs.

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  1. Producing nectar, as a flower. The fritillary, … a large, handsome, bell-shaped flower, with separate petals, … and with a nectariferous cavity at their base, … is purple or red, chequered with lurid marks. Grant Allen, Colours of Flowers, p. 56.

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  • Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs. —  My Tropic Isle
 

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  1. Latin nectar + -fer, from ferre, bear.
 

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