different between nectarine vs nectareal

English

Etymology

nectar +? -ine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k.t?.?in/

Noun

nectarine (plural nectarines)

1. A cultivar of the peach distinguished by its skin being smooth, not fuzzy.
   • 1670, John Evelyn, 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,^[1]

     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.

   • 1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Garden,” stanza 5, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Nonesuch, 1923, pp. 49-50,^[2]

     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.

   • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53,^[3]

     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.

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     When you see a dish of fruit at dessert, you sometimes set your affections upon one particular peach or nectarine, watch it with some anxiety as it comes round the table, and feel quite a sensible disappointment when it is taken by some one else.

2. (obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine.
   • 1628 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, 3rd edition, Part 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, p. 509,^[4]

     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, […]

Synonyms

• brunion

Translations

Further reading

• Peach (Nectarines) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

nectarine (comparative more nectarine, superlative most nectarine)

1. Nectarous; like nectar.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 329-332,^[5]

     […] to their supper-fruits they fell,

     Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs

     Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline

     On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]

Anagrams

• ancienter, inertance

English

Adjective

nectareal (comparative more nectareal, superlative most nectareal)

1. (poetic, rare) Of or pertaining to nectar; nectareous; sweet.
   • 1658 John Rowland, The Theater of Insects 4:

     First of all we will treat of Honey, that immortal, nectareal, pleasant, wholsome juice.

Related terms

• nectar
• nectarean
• nectarell
• nectareous
• nectarian
• nectarine
• nectarious
• nectarous

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “nectareal”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• lactarene