Dictionary

nectarine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/
• /ˌnɛktəˈɹiːn/ (US)

Etymology

From nectar + -ine.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Nectarous; pertaining to or resembling nectar.
   • […] 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 […] 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book 4, lines 329-332:

Forms

nectarine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/
• /ˌnɛktəˈɹiːn/ (US)

Etymology

From nectar + -ine.

Meanings

1. A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
   • 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 […] 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:
   • 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, 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, 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.
   • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53, 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.
   • 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. 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
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, 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, […]

Forms

Deriveds

nectaplum · Spanish nectarine

Descendants

nectarine

Synonyms

brunion

Translations (60)

mt arċiprisk (fruit) · bg нектарина (fruit) · ast nectarina (fruit) · ja 油桃 (fruit) · he אֲפַרְשְׁזִיף (fruit) · mt nuċiprisk (fruit) · nl nectarine (fruit) · cy neithdaren (fruit) · gd peitseag-lom (fruit) · ckb ھوڵو (fruit) · ar دُرَّاق (fruit) · ca nectarina (fruit) · cs nektarinka (fruit) · uk нектари́н (fruit) · kmr teraqî (fruit) · gd neacadair (fruit) · he נקטרינה (fruit) · sv nektarin (fruit) · ota دراقی (fruit) · el νεκταρίνι (fruit) · it pesca noce (fruit) · af nektarien (fruit) · fa شلیل (fruit) · ary شهدية (fruit) · kmr nektarîn (fruit) · pt pêssego-careca (fruit) · aii ܕܘܼܪܩܝܼܢܵܐ (fruit) · pl nektaryna (fruit) · io nektarino (fruit) · mt ċiprisk (fruit) · tr nektarin (fruit) · it nettarina (fruit) · eo nektarino (fruit) · ja ネクタリン (fruit) · ja 椿桃 (fruit) · mt ċuprisk (fruit) · ka ვაშლატამა (fruit) · pt nectarina (fruit) · fi nektariini (fruit) · da nektarin (fruit) · frs nektaarîin (fruit) · bg гола праскова (fruit) · ga neachtairín (fruit) · mk сливопраска (fruit) · ko 천도 복숭아 (fruit) · ro nectarină (fruit) · ru нектари́н (fruit) · grc ῥοδάκινον (fruit) · mt anċiprisk (fruit) · hy նեկտարին (fruit) · fr nectarine (fruit) · kmr şelîl (fruit) · tl nektarina (fruit) · mk нектарина (fruit) · es nectarina (fruit) · de Nektarine (fruit) · is nektarína (fruit) · cy nectarîn (fruit) · cmn 油桃 (fruit) · ja 光桃 (fruit)