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Nectarine   Listen
noun
Nectarine  n.  (Bot.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; also called cocoa plum. It is made into a sweet conserve which is largely exported from Cuba.





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"Nectarine" Quotes from Famous Books



... and banians and aswatthas and khirikas and bhall atakas and amalkas and bibhitakas and ingudas and karamardas and tindukas of large fruits—these and many others on the slopes of the Gandhamadana, clustered with sweet and nectarine fruits. And besides these, they beheld champakas and asokas and ketakas and vakulas and punnagas and saptaparnas and karnikaras, and patals, and beautiful kutajas and mandaras, and lotuses, and parijatas, and kovidaras and devadarus, and salas, and palmyra palms, and tamalas, and pippalas, and ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli


Words linked to "Nectarine" :   edible fruit, Prunus persica nectarina, Prunus


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