Vocabulary Word
Word: nectar
Definition: drink of the gods; sweet liquid collected by bees
Definition: drink of the gods; sweet liquid collected by bees
Sentences Containing 'nectar'
Humble bees alone visit red clover, as other bees cannot reach the nectar.
Now, let us suppose that the juice or nectar was excreted from the inside of the flowers of a certain number of plants of any species.
Insects in seeking the nectar would get dusted with pollen, and would often transport it from one flower to another.
The plants which produced flowers with the largest glands or nectaries, excreting most nectar, would oftenest be visited by insects, and would oftenest be crossed; and so in the long-run would gain the upper hand and form a local variety.
The weather had been cold and boisterous and therefore not favourable to bees, nevertheless every female flower which I examined had been effectually fertilised by the bees, which had flown from tree to tree in search of nectar.
I could give many facts showing how anxious bees are to save time: for instance, their habit of cutting holes and sucking the nectar at the bases of certain flowers, which with a very little more trouble they can enter by the mouth.
Several plants habitually produce two kinds of flowers; one kind open and coloured so as to attract insects; the other closed, not coloured, destitute of nectar, and never visited by insects.
Like other hummingbirds, the Blue-throated Mountaingem feeds on nectar from flowers and catches insects in flight and by gleaning from vegetation.
In winter, sap from wells drilled by sapsuckers may substitute for nectar.
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Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles (Roman equivalent: Hercules); her successor was Zeus's lover Ganymede.
The flowers bloom between June and September and are pollinated when bumblebees pry open the blossom to collect nectar and pollen.
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This species at a glance resembles a bee, fumbling flowers for nectar and sporting alternating orange and black bars down its abdomen.
They have thin pointed down-curved bills, which they can use to extricate insects from bark, but they have brush-like tongues, which enable them to also feed on nectar.
The tongue is long and easily extended to lap up nectar, a task made easier by the presence of hook-like papillae on the tip.
They are agile fliers, feeding on nectar, pollen, and fruit.
The father purifies the body of the groom using panchämrit (nectar from five pure liquids).
Flowers of "A. chiribogensis" produce small quantities of nectar, but lack a scent.
Amrita, the elixir of life, also known to Sikhs as "Amrit, the Nectar of Immortality" (see Amrit Sanskar), has been described in the Hindu scriptures.
The only food source is nectar, it also visits gardens and orchards and sips from domestic plants such as Mussaenda, Ixora and Lantana.
Tasmanian pygmy possums are omnivorous, feeding on insects, spiders, small lizards, nectar, and pollen, the latter two primarily coming from "Banksia" and eucalypts.
A yellow nectar guide extends along the lower lip.
The adults subsist on carbohydrate-rich materials, such as honeydew, or saps and juices from damaged plants, refuse, fruit, and nectar.
Unlike "Toxorhynchites" mosquitoes, detritus feeder mosquitoe female larvae rely on blood meals to produce eggs more plentifully than a diet of nectar would permit.
These butterflies fly in one generation from June to September feeding on nectar of flowers.
The food of this species is nectar, taken from a wide variety of flowers, and some small insects.
Its long, curved bill is especially adapted for reaching into flowers for nectar.
These small sunbirds mainly feed on nectar.
In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which eats the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.
Many species are nectar robbers, performing no pollination services to a plant while still consuming nectar.
Nectar is produced by flowering plants to attract pollinators to visit the flowers and transport pollen between them.
Flowers often have specialized structures that make the nectar accessible only for animals possessing appropriate morphological structures, and there are numerous examples of coevolution between nectarivores and the flowers they pollinate.
For example, hummingbirds and hawkmoths have long narrow beaks that can reach nectar at the bottom of long tubular flowers.
Bats, on the other hand, visit open flowers where the nectar is not as deeply hidden.
In bees, the maxillae and labium have been modified and fused to form a nectar-sucking proboscis.
The Anjouan Island day gecko feeds on insects and nectar.
They also like to lick soft, sweet fruit, pollen and nectar.
The diet is composed of nectar and pollen from coconuts and also fruit and insect larvae.
The diet of the melidectes is not known for all species, but for those that are known it consists of insects, nectar, pollen, fruit and berries.
"Passiflora foetida" is a larval host and nectar source for the Gulf Fritillary ("Agraulis vanillae").
The nectar-rich flowers are pollinated by sunbirds and the seeds are distributed and taken underground by ants before germinating.
Unlike most honeyeaters, its diet consists mostly of insects, but does include some nectar.
"Phelsuma v-nigra v-nigra" feeds on insects and nectar.
They secrete nectar, a most unusual characteristic for leaves, by means of groups of tiny glands in the axils of the primary veins.
The nectar glands of the lower lid surface number more than 100.
Medical.
For centuries, Māori have used nectar from the flowers for medicinal purposes and as a general sweetener.
Amrita Kumbher Sandhane ( , Quest for the Pitcher of Nectar) is a 1982 Bengali film directed by Dilip Roy.
Other tree products are also eaten, including leaves, flowers and nectar.
The adults feed on nectar, sap, and rotting fruit, while the larvae prefer the foliage of several oak species.