Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
nectary .
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Examples
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Above the nectaries is a 5-angled crown, the extremity of the receptacle; in each angle a black anther.
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The evolution of nectaries in late Cretaceous flowers signals the beginning of the mutualism between hymenopterans and angiosperms.
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They have long beaks for probing nectaries, extended by even longer tongues.
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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.
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They have long beaks for probing nectaries, extended by even longer tongues.
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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.
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They bite holes in the flowers near the nectaries and extract the nectar through the hole instead of visiting the flowers “legitimately”.
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She had a passion for achievement; she attempted the most difficult things, close racemes, the tiniest corollas, heaths, nectaries of the most variegated hues.
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She had a passion for achievement; she attempted the most difficult things, close racemes, the tiniest corollas, heaths, nectaries of the most variegated hues.
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Next to occur would have been the evolution of nectaries, nectar-secreting structures, to lure the pollinators.
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