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UK
/nˈɛktɑːɹˌiːn/
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NOUN
- variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
- a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin
How To Use nectarine In A Sentence
- Through the flower and fruit garden, against whose high outer walls peach trees and nectarines were trained to the sun, through the stables, the vinery, the mushroom house, the asparagus beds, the rosery, the summer-house, he conducted her — even into the kitchen garden to see the tiny green peas which Holly loved to scoop out of their pods with her finger, and lick up from the palm of her little brown hand. Indian Summer of a Forsyte
- Here is a meadowlark atop a regal walnut, next to it a young nectarine tree girdled with compost.
- I picked up some fruits on my way home, so I now have at my disposal apricots, peaches, nectarines, lychee fruit, a mango, and assorted berries.
- It is crammed with off-dry, yet fresh, grapey, floral, nectarine fruit. Times, Sunday Times
- A few days later, I followed the dream's instructions, and brought these fish and nectarine skewers to life, served with herbed couscous and a nectarine chutney.
- Lutein is found in spinach, leeks, peas, kiwi fruits, black grapes and romaine lettuce, while rich sources of zeaxanthin include sweetcorn, red peppers, nectarines, papaya and honeydew melon.
- Sour cherries, peaches and nectarines produce fruit from a single tree since they self-pollinate.
- Baked nectarines with crushed amaretti biscuits was a lighter and indisputably healthier alternative.
- A nectarine or peach pie with blueberries is gorgeous and wildly aromatic, juicy and tangy, and smells of summer. Favorite Pie
- He would have some discreet men to dissuade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allayed; for it is as intempestive at first, to give counsel, as to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe narcotics, cordials, nectarines, potions, Anatomy of Melancholy