nectarous

Manduca sexta is a nectarous insect pollinator, which relies greatly upon vison and olfaction to determine their feeding source.

Although not as comprehensive in terms of the number of writings dished up in Medieval Women's Visionary Literature by Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, The Women in God's Kitchen opens the kitchen door wide and lets in the reader famished for something nectarous and new.

Priced at around pounds 30, stockists include Upton Wines (01684.592668), Nectarous Wines, Cheltenham (01242 2245466) and Avery's (01275.811100).

The human head was thought to be an orange - some sweeter than others, more nectarous, but oranges still.