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Definition of Nectaries
1. nectary [n] - See also: nectary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nectaries
Literary usage of Nectaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fruit of Opuntia Fulgida: A Study of Perennation and Proliferation in by Duncan Starr Johnson (1918)
"The number and length of these trichomes enables them completely to submerge all
other structures in the bud except the nectaries and the full-grown ..."
2. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"Darkening the nectaries of leaves on the plant or of excised leaves, or darkening
the whole leaves, caused a gradual disappearance of the starch, ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"These are larger, deeper, and more active than the nectaries of any of the ...
In some of the varieties these nectaries are reduced to mere rudiments or are ..."
4. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"The forms of nectaries, comprised in the second series, are more widely distributed
... In the two extreme types of the nectaries belonging to this series, ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"LEAVES AS nectaries. The petals or stamens are transformed into ... The transformation
in the vegetative region of stipules into nectaries has been ..."
6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"There is no valid evidence for these fanciful theories, and recent careful
experiments in which plants have been deprived of extra- floral nectaries without ..."
7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1886)
"(4) On the Physiological Significance of Water Glands and nectaries. By WALTER
GARDINER, BA, Clare College. In the present paper I propose to briefly ..."
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