nectar
The drink of the gods.
Other meanings
Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
A kind of
- secretion
Related words
- nectariferous
- nectarivore
- nectarivorous
- nectarize
- nectarless
- nectarlike
- nectarophagous
- amber nectar
- nectar scarab
- Dashe's nectar bat
- Thomas's nectar bat
Word history
From Ancient Greek "νέκταρ" (nourishment of the gods).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nectar” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.