nectar

«nectar» in Mova's school dictionary: The sweet liquid inside flowers that bees, butterflies… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (nectar — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The sweet liquid inside flowers that bees, butterflies, moths and some birds drink. tree →

2) A very delicious drink; in Greek myths, the drink of the gods. tree →

3) A thick fruit juice: «peach nectar». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, nectar attracts insects and birds to flowers; while they drink, pollen sticks to them and is carried to other flowers (pollination). Bees make honey from nectar. Phrases: «drink nectar», «collect nectar».

examples

• Bees collect nectar from flowers. tree →
• Butterflies drink nectar with their long tongues. tree →
• Hummingbirds feed on nectar. tree →
• Bees turn nectar into honey. tree →
• The flowers make nectar to attract insects. tree →
• This peach nectar is thick and sweet. tree →

note

Uncountable. Nectar and pollen are different: nectar is a sweet liquid; pollen is a yellow powder.

In the corpora

• Some lemurs drink nectar and carry pollen on their faces from flower to flower, pollinating plants as bees do.
• Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees.
• Buddleia, called the butterfly bush, is full of nectar and attracts many butterflies to a garden.
• Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia.
• Some eat insects, some fruit, some nectar, and three kinds drink blood.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nectar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.