Nectarine

Quick meaning: Nectarine is a noun meaning A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.

Meaning

A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.

More Meanings

1. Nectarous; like nectar.
2. (obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine.

Example Sentences

[…] to their supper-fruits they fell, Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]

When you see a dish of fruit at dessert, you sometimes set your affections upon one particular peach or nectarine, watch it with some anxiety as it comes round the table, and feel quite a sensible disappointment when it is taken by some one else.

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.

Guava’s, a Fruit as large as a Pipin, with Seeds and Stones in it, of an uncouth aſtringing Taſt, tho’ never ſo much be ſaid in Commendation of it, at the West-Indies, it is common for Cræolians, (who has taſted both,) to give it a Preference to Peach or Nectarine, no amazing Thing when Men whose Taſts are ſo degenerated, as to prefer a Toad in a Shell, (as Ward calls Turtle,) to Venison […]

Word Forms

• nectarines

Synonyms for nectarine

Depending on context, synonyms include brunion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nectaplum, peachtree, peach, rainier, jargonelle, nashi.

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