Nectarine Definition

nĕktə-rēn
nectarines
noun
nectarines
A naturally mutated variety (Prunus persica var. nectarina) of peach, having a smooth skin without down.
Webster's New World
The soft juicy fruit of this tree.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Prunus persica nectarina
  • nectarine tree
adjective

Nectarous; like nectar.

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Other Word Forms of Nectarine

Noun

Singular:
nectarine
Plural:
nectarines

Origin of Nectarine

  • From obsolete nectarine sweet as nectar from nectar

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nectarine Sentence Examples

  • The treatment in horticulture of the peach and nectarine is the same in every respect.

  • The best walls having a south or south-east aspect are devoted to the peach, nectarine, apricot, dessert pears, plums and early cherries.

  • As to the nectarine, of its origin as a variation from the peach there is abundant evidence, as has already been mentioned; it is only requisite to add the very important fact that the seeds of the nectarine, even when that nectarine has been produced by bud-variation from a peach, will generally produce nectarines, or, as gardeners say, "come true."

  • This mode of training is commonly adopted for the peach, nectarine, apricot and morello cherry, to which .

  • The nectarine is a variation from the peach, mainly characterized by the circumstance that, while the skin of the ripe fruit is downy in the peach, it is shining and destitute of hairs in the nectarine.

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