Meaning of "nectariferous" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF NECTARIFEROUS

ˌnektəˈrɪfərəs

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NECTARIFEROUS

Nectariferous is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NECTARIFEROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollinators include bees, butterflies and moths, hummingbirds, and bats. Nectar plays an important role in the foraging economics and overall evolution of nectar-eating species; for example, nectar and its properties are responsible for the differential evolution of the African honey bee, A. m. scutellata and the western honey bee. Nectar is an ecologically important item, the sugar source for honey. It is also useful in agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory insects, such as almost all solitary wasps, feed on nectar. In turn, these wasps then hunt agricultural pest insects as food for their young. For example, thread-waisted wasps are known for hunting caterpillars that are destructive to crops. Nectar secretion increases as the flower is visited by pollinators.

TRANSLATION OF NECTARIFEROUS

Find out the translation of nectariferous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of nectariferous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nectariferous» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 蜜
• Translator English - Spanish: nectarífero
• English: nectariferous
• Translator English - Hindi: nectariferous
• Translator English - Arabic: nectariferous
• Translator English - Russian: медоносное
• Translator English - Portuguese: nectariferous
• Translator English - Bengali: মধুধারী
• Translator English - French: nectarifères
• Translator English - Malay: Nektarifera
• Translator English - German: Nektar
• Translator English - Japanese: 蜜を分泌する
• Translator English - Korean: nectariferous
• Translator English - Javanese: Nectariferous
• Translator English - Vietnamese: hoa có nước mật
• Translator English - Tamil: தேன் சுரக்கும்
• Translator English - Marathi: Nectariferous
• Translator English - Turkish: nectariferous
• Translator English - Italian: mellifluo
• Translator English - Polish: nektarodajnych
• Translator English - Ukrainian: медоносна
• Translator English - Romanian: nectariferous
• Translator English - Greek: nectariferous
• Translator English - Afrikaans: heuning opleverend
• Translator English - Swedish: nectariferous
• Translator English - Norwegian: nectariferous

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NECTARIFEROUS»

Discover the use of nectariferous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nectariferous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

A General History of the Dichleamydeous Plants ... Arranged ...

... without any accessory segments; furnished with 4 nectariferous scrobicles at bottom, as in Swêrtia. Stamens 4; anthers incumbent. Ovarium subpedicellate, obsoletely tetragonal. Style hardly any. Stigmas broadish, revolute. Capsule ...

George Don, 1838

A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants

233 P. cartn'rum (Ait. hort. kew. 2. p. 425.) leaves cordate, lobed, waved, villous, toothed; stipulas broad-cordate; stems diffuse; umbels many-flowered, capitate; nectariferous tube S-times shorter than the calyx. 1; . G. Ger. capitatum, Lin. spec.

George Don, 1831

A General System of Gardening and Botany: Containing a ...

leaves cordate, lobed, waved, villous, toothed ; stipulas broad-cordate ; stems diffuse; umbels many- flowered, capitate; nectariferous tube 3-times shorter than the calyx. '; . G. Ger. capitatum, Lin. spec. 947. Cav. diss. 4. p. 105. f. 1. Ger. rdsa ...

George Don, 1831

Vol. I. - Thalamiflorae

leaves cordate, acute, toothed, flat, hoary-pubescent beneath ; branches and peduncles rather pilose ; umbels many—flowered, panicled ; lower petals awl- shaped, linear, acute, longer than the calyx ; nectariferous tube a little shorter than the ...

‎1831

Flowers on the Tree of Life

Androecium of at least three stamens or staminodes (only filaments/filament bases preserved) and six stalked nectariferous structures. Arrangement of androecial organs in groups of three with the central filament base opposite each outer ...

Livia Wanntorp, Louis P. Ronse De Craene, 2011

Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and ...

Fig. 22 Rhizomatous herbs: glabrous: glaucous. Stem simple. Leaves two, terminal, trifoliate. Flowers in terminal fasciele. nodding. Sepals 9-12. petaloid, purple. Staminodia 6. nectariferous. Stamens 6. Ovules 20- 30. placentation marginal.

Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, Volker Bittrich, 1993

Flowering Plants

Armen Takhtajan. fascicle, nodding, with three caducous, sepal-like bracteoles. Sepals six, petaloid, purple, 15 mm long, spreading. Petals six, small, with two nectariferous glands at base. Stamens six; anthers opening by small valves.

Armen Takhtajan, 2009

Flora Devoniensis: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants ...

Pet. inserted on the germen. Stigmas nectariferous. Berry many-celled, many- seeded. — P. 90. 194. NUPHAR. Cal. 5-6-leaved, larger than the cor. Pet. nectariferous on the hack, inserted on the receptacle. Berry many-celled, many- seeded.

John Pike Jones, J. F. Kingston, 1829

Nectaries and Nectar

Lardizabalaceae may not possess nectaries (Kawagoe & Suzuki, 2003) or have nectariferous petals (Cronquist, 1981). The same situation holds for Papaveraceae, where nectaries are absent (Cronquist, 1981) or present in the former ...

Sue W. Nicolson, Massimo Nepi, Ettore Pacini, 2007

Plants: Diversity and Evolution

In the early stages of the evolution of flowering plants the stigmatic exudate may have provided the attrac- tant but in most nectariferous living flowers nectar is produced by specialised nectaries. At its simplest nectar is exuded onto the surface ...

Martin Ingrouille, Bill Eddie, 2006

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NECTARIFEROUS»

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Sunshine & orange blossoms

A circular nectariferous tissue is present at the base of the ovary, producing nectar. Honey bees, small bees and black ants are drawn to the ... «Deccan Herald, Mar 12»