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Nectarine definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NECTARINE, a. Sweet as nectar.
NECTARINE, n. A fruit, a variety of the peach with a smooth rind.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh [syn: nectarine, nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina]
2: a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: obsolete nectarine, adjective, like nectar Date: 1611 a peach with a smooth-skinned fruit that is a frequent somatic mutation of the normal peach; also its fruit

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a variety of peach with a thin brightly-coloured smooth skin and firm flesh. 2 the tree bearing this. Etymology: orig. as adj., = nectar-like, f. NECTAR + -INE(4)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nectarine Nec"tar*ine, a. Nectareous. [R.] --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nectarine Nec"tar*ine, n. [Cf. F. nectarine. See Nectar.] (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 a largely exported from Cuba.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(nectarines) A nectarine is a round, juicy fruit which is similar to a peach but has a smooth skin. N-COUNT