Nectarine Synonyms

nĕktə-rēn
Variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. nectarine tree
  2. Prunus persica nectarina

Words Related to Nectarine

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. passion-fruit
  2. pomelo
  3. lychee
  4. seedless
  5. citrus-fruit
  6. pear
  7. hazelnut
  8. pawpaw
  9. glace
  10. greengage
  11. apricots

Nectarine Sentence Examples

  • The treatment in horticulture of the peach and nectarine is the same in every respect.

  • The best walls having a south or south-east aspect are devoted to the peach, nectarine, apricot, dessert pears, plums and early cherries.

  • As to the nectarine, of its origin as a variation from the peach there is abundant evidence, as has already been mentioned; it is only requisite to add the very important fact that the seeds of the nectarine, even when that nectarine has been produced by bud-variation from a peach, will generally produce nectarines, or, as gardeners say, "come true."

  • This mode of training is commonly adopted for the peach, nectarine, apricot and morello cherry, to which .

  • The nectarine is a variation from the peach, mainly characterized by the circumstance that, while the skin of the ripe fruit is downy in the peach, it is shining and destitute of hairs in the nectarine.

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