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Definition: Nectarine |
NectarineNoun1. Variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit with usually yellow flesh. 2. Smooth-skinned variety or mutation of the peach. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nectarine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Nectarine is a sweet and juicy stone fruit tree very similar to the peach. However, where the peach has a furry skin, nectarines are smooth and shiny. Nectarines are very soft and easily damaged, and they have a very short shelf-life. Like peaches, there are two different varieties of nectarines in cultivation - white nectarines, which have a red skin and a white interior, and golden nectarines, with yellowish flesh.Nectarine trees will grow from seed and reach the stage of bearing fruit in their natural state, although various grafted cultivars are sold in nurseries. The trees are prone to a disease called leaf curl, which does not affect the fruit crop, merely the aesthetics of the tree, and the fruit is very susceptible to brown rot.
A nectarine tree in full-bloomSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nectarine."
Synonym: NectarineSynonym: nectarine tree (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nectarine |
| English words defined with "nectarine": Brunion. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nectarine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (nectarine). |
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 | From an overhead angle, a peach, a nectarine, a cherry tomato and a plum sit on a green marble table garnished with a stem of green leaves. The script text in the lower third reads: "Include 2-3 servings of fruit each day". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" August 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A wooden table containing: a ladle full of beans, a sliced loaf of brown bread, a bunch of bananas, muffins, small potatoes, a head of cabbage, an ear of corn, a pile of cereal, yams, apples, a nectarine and some spaghetti. See also AV-3905 and AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| "Nectarine blossom" by Clare Cowan Commentary: "Such a gorgeous pink blossom! Hopefully fortelling tasty nectarines and a warm Melbourne summer..." |
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| "Nectarine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 33.33% of the time. "Nectarine" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nectarine": nectarine tree ♦ spanish nectarine. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nectarine | 61 |
agriculture nectarine | 27 |
importer nectarine | 20 |
nectarine tree | 16 |
calorie nectarine | 12 |
company list nectarine | 11 |
nectarine recipe | 10 |
dried nectarine | 5 |
calorie in nectarine | 4 |
nectarine nutrition | 4 |
disease nectarine tree | 4 |
nectarine seller | 3 |
fruit nectarine | 3 |
nectarine pie recipe | 3 |
cobbler nectarine | 3 |
nectarine recipe zinfandel | 3 |
nectarine picture | 2 |
jam nectarine | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "nectarine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nektarinë, pjeshkë pa push. (various references) | |
Arabic | زليقة, رحيقاني نوع من الدراق أو الخوخ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гола праскова, нектарин, праскова без мъх. (various references) | |
Chinese | 油桃. (various references) | |
Czech | nektarinka. (various references) | |
Danish | nektarin. (various references) | |
Dutch | nectarine, naakte perzik. (various references) | |
Farsi | هلوی شیرین وابدار, شلیل . (various references) | |
Finnish | nektariini. (various references) | |
French | nectarine, brugnon. (various references) | |
German | nektarine. (various references) | |
Greek | νεκταρίνι, μηλοροδάκινο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nektarin, simahéjú õszibarack. (various references) | |
Italian | nettarina, pesca noce. (various references) | |
Manx | peitshag lhome, naghtyreen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ectarinenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pêssego-careca, nectarina. (various references) | |
Romanian | piersicã cu coajã netedã. (various references) | |
Russian | гладкий персик, нектарин. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nektarina. (various references) | |
Spanish | nectarina. (various references) | |
Swedish | nektarin. (various references) | |
Turkish | şeftali (peach). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нектарний (nectareous), нектарин, найсолодший, п'янкий, як нектар. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Prunus persica var.laevis, Prunus persica var.nectarina. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "nectarine": nectarines. (additional references) | |
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"Nectarine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encratite, Necarne, Nectarinia, nectering, nect'rins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ancienter. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: centiare, creatine, entrance, incenter, increate, iterance, narceine. | |
-2 letters: ancient, arenite, cannier, canteen, centare, centner, ceratin, certain, creatin, crenate, enteric, enticer, entrain, interne, narcein, reenact, retinae, tacrine, trainee. | |
-3 letters: acetin, canine, canner, cannie, canter, careen, carnet, carnie, centai, center, centra, centre, cerate, cerite, cetane, create, cretin, ecarte, enatic, encina, entera, entice, entire, inaner, incant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: creatinine, incinerate, interocean, nectarines, reenacting, renunciate, transience. | |
+2 letters: ancientries, bicentenary, centenarian, centenaries, creatinines, crenelation, incinerated, incinerates, incremental, inheritance, interagency, intercensal, interchange, intolerance, noncreative, nonreactive, preenacting, reaccenting, reincarnate, renunciates, transiences. | |
+3 letters: androgenetic, antielectron, carpentering, centenarians, cogeneration, conferential, containerise, containerize, crenelations, crenellation, disenchanter, enantiomeric, inadvertence, inadvertency, inheritances, intemperance, interchained, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interchannel, internuclear, interoceanic, intolerances, itinerancies, neurasthenic, nonmetameric, reincarnated, reincarnates, renunciative, transiencies, trenchancies. | |
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