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