nectary
IPA: nˈɛktɝi
noun
- (botany) A gland that secretes nectar
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Examples of "nectary" in Sentences
- A nectary disk is often present.
- The nectary disk is intrastaminal.
- The nectary lobes are elliptical or semicircular.
- The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands.
- Sometimes the base of the ovary is circled by a nectary disk.
- The flowers are usually small with a conspicuous nectary disk.
- Their labelli are partially fused to the column forming a nectary.
- They have sessile flowers with the tepals fused at the base, without nectary.
- The gynoecium has 3 connate carpels with the nectary on top of the gynoecium.
- At the base of each phyllode is a nectary gland, which secretes a sugary fluid.
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