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Nectarous

Nectarous \Nec"tar*ous\, a. Nectareous.
--Milton.

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nectarous

a. consisting of, having the quality of, or resemble nectar

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nectarous

adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food" [syn: ambrosial, ambrosian]

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And now it is deluged with a nectarous flood -- the young germs swamped -- delicious poison cankering them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver's feet: she is talking to me with her sweet voice -- gazing down on me with those eyes your skilful hand has copied so well -- smiling at me with these coral lips.