adj
Meaning 1
Nectarous; like nectar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nectarine
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noun
Meaning 2
A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 10, Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost: This to be understood of the most tender and delicate Wall-fruit, not finished before; do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, whatever has been, and still is, the contrary custom.
- 1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Garden,” stanza 5, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Nonesuch, 1923, pp. 49-50, What wond’rous Life in this I lead! Ripe Apples drop about my head; The Luscious Clusters of the Vine Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine; The Nectaren, and curious Peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on Melons, as I pass, Insnar’d with Flow’rs, I fall on Grass.
- 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53, So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own; and not only so, but was improved by passing thro’ more salubrious Ducts and Vehicles; like some fine Fruit grafted upon a common Free-stock, whose more exuberant Juices serve to bring to quicker and greater Perfection the downy Peach, or the smooth Nectarine with its crimson Blush.
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noun
Meaning 3
A nectar-like liquid medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1628 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509, He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, Nectarines, potions, [...]
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noun
Meaning 4
a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: edible fruit
noun
Meaning 5
variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fruit tree
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English nectar Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English nectarine From nectar + -ine.
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: nektarien — fruit
- Arabic: دُرَّاق (durrāq) — fruit
- Arabic: شهدية (šahdiyya) — fruit
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܘܼܪܩܝܼܢܵܐ (durqīnā) — fruit
- Armenian: նեկտարին (nektarin) — fruit
- Asturian: nectarina — fruit
- Bulgarian: нектарина (nektarina) — fruit
- Bulgarian: гола праскова (gola praskova) — fruit
- Catalan: nectarina — fruit
- Chinese Mandarin: 油桃 (yóutáo) — fruit
- Czech: nektarinka — fruit
- Danish: nektarin — fruit
- Dutch: nectarine — fruit
- East Frisian Low German: nektaarîin — fruit
- Esperanto: nektarino — fruit
- Finnish: nektariini — fruit
- French: nectarine — fruit
- Georgian: ვაშლატამა (vašlaṭama) — fruit
- German: Nektarine — fruit
- Greek: νεκταρίνι (nektaríni) — fruit
- Ancient Greek: ῥοδάκινον (rhodákinon) — fruit
- Hebrew: נקטרינה (nektarína) — fruit
- Hebrew: אֲפַרְשְׁזִיף (afarshezíf) — fruit
- Icelandic: nektarína — fruit
- Ido: nektarino — fruit
- Irish: neachtairín — fruit
- Italian: nettarina — fruit
- Italian: pesca noce — fruit
- Japanese: ネクタリン (nekutarin) — fruit
- Japanese: 油桃 (aburamomo) — fruit
- Japanese: 光桃 (hikarimomo) — fruit
- Japanese: 椿桃 (zubaimomo, tsubaimomo, tsubakimomo) — fruit
- Korean: 천도 복숭아 (cheondo boksung'a) — fruit
- Central Kurdish: ھوڵو (hullu) — fruit
- Northern Kurdish: teraqî — fruit
- Northern Kurdish: şelîl — fruit
- Northern Kurdish: nektarîn — fruit
- Macedonian: сливопраска (slivopraska) — fruit
- Macedonian: нектарина (nektarina) — fruit
- Maltese: nuċiprisk — fruit
- Maltese: ċiprisk — fruit
- Maltese: ċuprisk — fruit
- Maltese: anċiprisk — fruit
- Maltese: arċiprisk — fruit
- Persian: شلیل (šalil) — fruit
- Polish: nektaryna — fruit
- Portuguese: nectarina — fruit
- Portuguese: pêssego-careca — fruit
- Romanian: nectarină — fruit
- Russian: нектари́н (nektarín) — fruit
- Scottish Gaelic: peitseag-lom — fruit
- Scottish Gaelic: neacadair — fruit
- Spanish: nectarina — fruit
- Swedish: nektarin — fruit
- Tagalog: nektarina — fruit
- Turkish: nektarin — fruit
- Ottoman Turkish: دراقی (durrakı) — fruit
- Ukrainian: нектари́н (nektarýn) — fruit
- Welsh: nectarîn — fruit
- Welsh: neithdaren — fruit