Crossword clues for nectarine
nectarine
- Fruitful product of internecine war is losing weight for a short time
- Fruit crate broken in square
- Fruit — a number outside broken crate
- Ancient queen initially misrepresented as one with a smooth skin
- Fleshy fruit
- Peach variety
- Kind of peach
- Shade of orange
- Smooth-skinned variety of peach
- Smooth peach-like stone fruit
- Smooth downless peach
- Pitted fruit
- Fuzzless peach
- Cobbler fruit, at times
- Juicy fruit
- Pit holder
- Relative of ocher
- Variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit with usually yellow flesh
- Smooth-skinned variety or mutation of the peach
- Smooth-skinned peach
- Peach of a fruit?
- Variety of peach
- Explorer gutted with ancient stewed fruit
- Entire can spilled that's full of juice
- Working in a centre for fruit
- Square containing exposed area of land for fruit
- Something juicy in a centre spread
- Sailor in awfully nice surroundings points to fruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nectarine \Nec"tar*ine\ (n[e^]k"t[~e]r*[i^]n), a.
Nectareous. [R.]
--Milton.
Nectarine \Nec`tar*ine"\ (n[e^]k`t[~e]r*[=e]n"), n. [Cf. F. nectarine. See Nectar.] (Bot.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum. It is made into a sweet conserve which is largely exported from Cuba.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. nectarous; like nectar n. A cultivar of the peach distinguished by its skin being smooth, not fuzzy.
WordNet
n. variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit with usually yellow flesh [syn: nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina]
smooth-skinned variety or mutation of the peach
Wikipedia
- redirect Peach#Nectarines
Category:Fruit Category:Edible fruits
Usage examples of "nectarine".
Incidentally, a nectarine is not a cross between a peach and a plum but a fuzzless variety of peach with an ancient pedigree.
Early this year a dissident group of peach and nectarine growers persuaded the USDA to add an alternate, lower standard known as U.
Sir Bonamy, putting the nectarine he had been considering back in the dish.
Savoys prepared to leave the hospital, they were presented with a birth certificate for Nectarine Savoy.
That name, and the hilarious story behind it, had gone a long way toward taking Nectarine Savoy to the top of the modeling profession during the late seventies and early eighties.
Neither Joey Antoine nor Nectarine Savoy had shown up yet, but eventually Captain Russo had been located.
Sergeant Nectarine Savoy and Detective Leo Wickes, who had asked Charlotte to ride with them to the graveside.
Do not show that diary to Nectarine until I have a chance to talk to Marcel.
Detective Sergeant Nectarine Savoy watched stonily as the print man went through the probably pointless formality of dusting all surfaces.
Sergeant Nectarine Savoy and Detective Leo Wickes were alert for signs of a quarry they were certain was in this room.
She watched with folded arms, muttering as Marcel pitched solemn woo to Nectarine Savoy, who certainly appeared intrigued.
Marcel and Nectarine parted, Charlotte went over and drew him aside, speaking low and earnestly.
They stayed a little while with the gentle beasts, and then crossed the paddock and went through a narrow wooden door into the kitchen garden, walled and sheltered, with peach and pear and nectarine trees against the red brick.
Our refectory will be found to contain every species of fruit, from the cooling nectarine and luscious peach to the puny pippin and the noxious nut.
She passed beneath a pedimented arch and ran the length of the fifty-foot-long garden, skirting around a stone table surrounded by windsor chairs and stone pots of flowering nectarine trees.