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countable and uncountable, plural nectars
(chiefly mythology) The drink of the gods. quotations
They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. examples
(botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds. examples
third-person singular simple present nectars, present participle nectaring, simple past and past participle nectared
(intransitive) To feed on nectar. quotations examples
On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.
2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123