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Nectar might mean:
Nectar source — in botany, a sugar-rich liquid by the flowers of plants sequentially to attract pollinating beast. These are as well a chief raw ingredient of honey. A honey gland is the secretor that secretes nectar. These are unremarkably placed at a base of a flower, forcing pollinators to brush against the flower's reproductive structures to email it. These are non the limited stamen. Nectar that is produced outside a flower is typically produced to attract predatory insects. It might eat two a nectar & any plant-phytophagous insects about, so functioning when 'bodyguards'. A select few carnivorous plants will use nectar to lure prey insects into a trap organs of the plant.
Nectar loyalty card — a loyalty card scheme issued by a partnership of UK retailers, including supermarket chain Sainsburys.
Nectar & ambrosia — the food of the gods in Greek mythology. These are believed that them terms were non originally distinguished—though within Homer's poems & late works, nectar is the ingest & ambrosia the food. Then agaaround, in Alcman nectar is the food, and around Sappho and Anaxandrides ambrosia the swallow. Every is utilized within Homer as an unguent (Iliad, xiv. 170; 19. 38). Each come fragrant, & peradventure utilized when perfume. Based on data from W. H. Röscher (Nektar und Ambrosia, 1883; understand besides his article inside Röscher's 'Lexikon five hundred Mythologie'') nectar & ambrosia were originally merely different forms of the equivalent substance - honey, regarded as a dew, rather manna, fallen from heaven, which wwhen utilized each as food & ingest. Look at too Ichor, mead. Nectar is besides mentioned around Hindu mythology, specifically in the Upanishads and the Puranas.
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