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nectarine

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Nectarines

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English nectar
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English nectarine

    From nectar + -ine.

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    nectarine (plural nectarines)

    1. A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
      • 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 10,[1]
        Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost: This to be understood of the most tender and delicate Wall-fruit, not finished before; do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, whatever has been, and still is, the contrary custom.
      • 1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Garden,” stanza 5, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Nonesuch, 1923, pp. 49-50,[2]
        What wond’rous Life in this I lead!
        Ripe Apples drop about my head;
        The Luscious Clusters of the Vine
        Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine;
        The Nectaren, and curious Peach,
        Into my hands themselves do reach;
        Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,
        Insnar’d with Flow’rs, I fall on Grass.
      • 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Howel Davis, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 199:
        Guava’s, a Fruit as large as a Pipin, with Seeds and Stones in it, of an uncouth aſtringing Taſt, tho’ never ſo much be ſaid in Commendation of it, at the West-Indies, it is common for Cræolians, (who has taſted both,) to give it a Preference to Peach or Nectarine, no amazing Thing when Men whose Taſts are ſo degenerated, as to prefer a Toad in a Shell, (as Ward calls Turtle,) to Venison […]
      • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53,[3]
        So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own; and not only so, but was improved by passing thro’ more salubrious Ducts and Vehicles; like some fine Fruit grafted upon a common Free-stock, whose more exuberant Juices serve to bring to quicker and greater Perfection the downy Peach, or the smooth Nectarine with its crimson Blush.
      • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
        When you see a dish of fruit at dessert, you sometimes set your affections upon one particular peach or nectarine, watch it with some anxiety as it comes round the table, and feel quite a sensible disappointment when it is taken by some one else.
    2. (obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine.
      • 1628 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509,[4]
        He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, Nectarines, potions, […]

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    • → Dutch: nectarine

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    Adjective

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    nectarine (comparative more nectarine, superlative most nectarine)

    1. Nectarous; like nectar.
      • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎[5], Book 4, lines 329-332:
        […] to their supper-fruits they fell,
        Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
        Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
        On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]

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    Dutch

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    Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Borrowed from English nectarine.

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    • IPA(key): /nɛk.taːˈri.nə/
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    • Hyphenation: nec‧ta‧ri‧ne
    • Rhymes: -inə

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    nectarine f (plural nectarines, diminutive nectarinetje n)

    1. nectarine

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    nectarine f (plural nectarines)

    1. nectarine

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