Nectarine

//ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Nectarous; like nectar.

    "[…] 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 […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin wordnet
  3. 3
    A nectar-like liquid medicine. obsolete

    "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, […]"

  4. 4
    variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From nectar + -ine.

Etymology 2

From nectar + -ine.

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