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nectary

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nec·ta·ry  (nkt-r)
n. pl. nec·ta·ries
A glandlike organ, located outside or within a flower, that secretes nectar.
[New Latin nectrium, from nectar.]
nec·tari·al (-târ-l) adj.
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Noun1.nectarynectary - a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar
honey gland
plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
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I may add, as an instance of this, and of a striking case of correlation, that I have recently observed in some garden pelargoniums, that the central flower of the truss often loses the patches of darker colour in the two upper petals; and that when this occurs, the adherent nectary is quite aborted; when the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is only much shortened.
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