nectarine

Noun

 * 1) A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
 * 2) * 1670,, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 10,
 * Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost: This to be understood of the most tender and delicate Wall-fruit, not finished before; do this before the buds and bearers grow turgid; and yet in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, whatever has been, and still is, the contrary custom.
 * 1) * 1681,, “The Garden,” stanza 5, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Nonesuch, 1923, pp. 49-50,
 * What wond’rous Life in this I lead!
 * Ripe Apples drop about my head;
 * The Luscious Clusters of the Vine
 * Upon my Mouth do crush their Wine;
 * The Nectaren, and curious Peach,
 * Into my hands themselves do reach;
 * Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,
 * Insnar’d with Flow’rs, I fall on Grass.
 * 1) * 1742,, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53,
 * So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own; and not only so, but was improved by passing thro’ more salubrious Ducts and Vehicles; like some fine Fruit grafted upon a common Free-stock, whose more exuberant Juices serve to bring to quicker and greater Perfection the downy Peach, or the smooth Nectarine with its crimson Blush.
 * 1)  A nectar-like liquid medicine.
 * 2) * 1628 Robert Burton, , Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509,
 * He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, Nectarines, potions,
 * 1) * 1628 Robert Burton, , Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509,
 * He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, Nectarines, potions,

Translations

 * Afrikaans: nektarien
 * Arabic: دُرَّاق
 * Moroccan Arabic: شهدية
 * Armenian: նեկտարին
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܘܼܪܩܝܼܢܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian:, гола праскова
 * Catalan: nectarina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: nektarinka
 * Danish: nektarin
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nektarino
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ვაშლატამა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥοδάκινον
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: neachtairín
 * Italian: nettarina, pesca noce
 * Japanese: ネクタリン, 油桃, 光桃, 椿桃
 * Korean: 천도 복숭아
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھوڵو
 * Northern Kurdish:, şelîl, nektarîn
 * Macedonian: сливопраска, нектарина
 * Maltese: nuċiprisk, ċiprisk, ċuprisk, anċiprisk, arċiprisk
 * Ottoman Turkish: دراقی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: peitseag-lom, neacadair
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nektarina
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: nectarîn, neithdaren

Adjective

 * 1) Nectarous; like nectar.