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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#m1)

2) A very delicious drink; in Greek myths, the drink of the gods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#m2)

3) A thick fruit juice: «peach nectar». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#x1)
- Butterflies drink nectar with their long tongues. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#x2)
- Hummingbirds feed on nectar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#x3)
- Bees turn nectar into honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#x4)
- The flowers make nectar to attract insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#x5)
- This peach nectar is thick and sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/16/)
- [Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/5/)
- [Buddleia, called the butterfly bush, is full of nectar and attracts many butterflies to a garden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/15/)
- [Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/13/)
- [Some eat insects, some fruit, some nectar, and three kinds drink blood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nectar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nectar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.