Word Meanings - NECTAREAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. "nectarean juice." Talfourd.

Related words: (words related to NECTAREAN)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• NECTARINE
  Nectareous. Milton.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• NECTARIZE
  To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. Cockeram.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• JUICE
  The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• NECTARIFEROUS
  Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• NECTAR
  The drink of the gods ; hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
• NECTARY
  That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.
• SWEETWEED
  A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
• SWEETHEARTING
  Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.