Nectary

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 426

Nectary, in Botany, an organ in the flowers of many phanerogamous plants, devoted either to the secretion or the reception of honey. Of the former kind are nectariferous glands, scales, and pores; of the latter, tubes, cavities, &c.

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