Crossword-Solution: NECTARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nectary | n. | That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NECTARY | anagram | ENCRATY |
We have 11 clues for the answer “NECTARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aphid's honey tube. | 1 answer |
| Bee's target on a flower | 1 answer |
| Bees make a beeline for it | 1 answer |
| Flower part sought by bee. | 1 answer |
| Pollinator's destination | 1 answer |
| structure secreting nectar in a plant | 1 answer |
| Source of honey. | 2 answers |
| Honey-sweet. | 2 answers |
| Flower organ | 3 answers |
| Part of a flower. | 11 answers |
| flower part | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NECTARY (5)
When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened.
Angraecum sesquipedale, a Madagascan orchid, with a whiplike nectary, 11 to 12 inches in length, which, according to Darwin ("Fertilisation of Orchids," Edition II., page 163), is adapted to the visits of a moth with a proboscis of corresponding length.
Wallace (page 476) shows that both proboscis and nectary might be increased in length by means of Natural Selection.
Hence even the thin nectary is essentially, I infer, tripartite; hence its tendency to bifurcation at its top.
The nectary within the base of the shorter stamens seems to cause the end sepals apparently, but not really, to arise beneath the lateral sepals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1944–2013).