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Word Meanings - NECTAREAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. "nectarean juice." Talfourd.

Related words: (words related to NECTAREAN)

  • SWEETLY
    In a sweet manner.
  • SWEETISH
    Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
  • SWEETING
    1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
  • NECTARINE
    Nectareous. Milton.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • SWEETROOT
    Licorice.
  • NECTARIZE
    To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. Cockeram.
  • SWEETENING
    1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
  • JUICE
    The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • SWEETEN
    Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
  • SWEETNESS
    The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
  • PLEASANTNESS
    The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • SWEETWORT
    Any plant of a sweet taste.
  • NECTARIFEROUS
    Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • NECTAR
    The drink of the gods ; hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
  • NECTARY
    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.
  • SWEETWEED
    A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
  • SWEETHEARTING
    Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
  • BITTERSWEET
    Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
  • HONEY-SWEET
    Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

 

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