NECTARY, noun In botany, the melliferous part of a vegetable, peculiar to the flower. It usually makes a part of the corol, gut is sometimes distinct from it. Sometimes ti is in the form of a horn or spur; sometimes in that of a cup; whence it is called the honey cup.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.