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Definition of Nectarine

1. Noun. Variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh.

2. Noun. A variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin.

Definition of Nectarine

1. a. Nectareous.

2. n. A smooth- skinned variety of peach.

Definition of Nectarine

1. Noun. A cultivar of the peach distinguished by the absence of peachfuzz on the skin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nectarine

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nectarine

1. A smooth-skinned variety of peach. Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; also called cocoa plum. It is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported from Cuba. Origin: Cf. F. Nectarine. See Nectar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nectarine

necrotrophic necrotrophs nectaplum nectaplums nectar nectareal nectarean nectared nectarel nectareous

nectarial nectaried nectaries nectariferous nectariless nectarine nectarine tree nectarines nectarivorous nectarize

nectarized nectarizes nectarizing nectarless nectarlike nectarous nectars nectary nectin nectocalyces

Literary usage of Nectarine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1921)
"Nectarine pits usually produce nectarines again, but they occasionally produce peaches. Peach seeds occasionally produce nectarines ; the Boston variety ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"When the- nectarine was introduced into cultivation, or whether it was known to the ancients, is not ascertained. It is simply a peach with a smooth skin ..."

3. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1900)
"THE Nectarine is only a variety of the peach with a smooth skin (Peche lisse, ... The Nectarine is known in Northern India, where it is called ..."

4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"At Beccles a Royal George peach" produced a fruit, " three parts of it being peach and one part nectarine, quite distinct in appearance as well as in ..."

5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1889)
"T. Rivers & Son, of Sawbridgeworth, were the greatest nectarine and peach growers in the United Kingdom, and that they would be able to speak from ..."

6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"(London, 1889), mentions the nectarine as being seen in the gardens of northern ... In the northern part of the United States the nectarine is sometimes ..."

7. The American Peach Orchard: A Sketch of the Practice of Peach Growing in by Frank Albert Waugh (1913)
"Probably not one fruit grower in a hundred has ever seen a nectarine. ... The nectarine is simply a smooth-skinned peach— a peach without the fuzz. ..."

8. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"When the nectarine was introduced into cultivation, or whether it was known to the ancients, is not ascertained. It is simply a peach with a smooth skin ..."

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