nectariferous

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So are all Nectaries, whether hollow spurs, sacs, or other concavities in which nectar is secreted, and all nectariferous glands.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striate, in an oblong head; scapose, spreading by runners.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Hypogynous disk of 5 nectariferous glands alternate with the stamens.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Petals often nectariferous or reduced to staminodia or none.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa