"nectarine" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nectarine.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more nectarine [comparative], most nectarine [superlative]
Etymology: nectar + -ine Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*terh₂-}}, {{suffix|en|nectar|ine}} nectar + -ine Head templates: {{en-adj}} nectarine (comparative more nectarine, superlative most nectarine)
  1. Nectarous; like nectar. Categories (lifeform): Fruits, Prunus genus plants
    Sense id: en-nectarine-en-adj-damh0IyL Disambiguation of Fruits: 59 30 10 Disambiguation of Prunus genus plants: 64 24 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ine Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 27 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 23 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ine: 73 19 8

Noun

IPA: /ˈnɛk.tə.ɹiːn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nectarine.wav [Southern-England] Forms: nectarines [plural]
Etymology: nectar + -ine Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*terh₂-}}, {{suffix|en|nectar|ine}} nectar + -ine Head templates: {{en-noun}} nectarine (plural nectarines)
  1. A cultivar of the peach with smooth rather than fuzzy skin.
    Sense id: en-nectarine-en-noun-S73e5of8
  2. (obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-nectarine-en-noun-ExsSSi2r
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: brunion Derived forms: Spanish nectarine Translations (fruit): nektarien (Afrikaans), ῥοδάκινον (rhodákinon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), دُرَّاق (durrāq) (Arabic), شهدية (šahdiyya) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), նեկտարին (nektarin) (Armenian), ܕܘܼܪܩܝܼܢܵܐ (durqīnā) [masculine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), nectarina [feminine] (Asturian), нектарина (nektarina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), гола праскова (gola praskova) [feminine] (Bulgarian), nectarina [feminine] (Catalan), ھوڵو (hullu) (Central Kurdish), 油桃 (yóutáo) (Chinese Mandarin), nektarinka [feminine] (Czech), nektarin [common-gender] (Danish), nectarine (Dutch), nektarino (Esperanto), nektariini (Finnish), nectarine [feminine] (French), ვაშლატამა (vašlaṭama) (Georgian), Nektarine [feminine] (German), νεκταρίνι (nektaríni) [neuter] (Greek), נקטרינה (nektarína) [feminine] (Hebrew), אֲפַרְשְׁזִיף (afarshezíf) [masculine] (Hebrew), nektarino (Ido), neachtairín [masculine] (Irish), nettarina [feminine] (Italian), pesca noce [feminine] (Italian), ネクタリン (nekutarin) (Japanese), 油桃 (aburamomo) (Japanese), 光桃 (hikarimomo) (Japanese), 椿桃 (zubaimomo, tsubaimomo, tsubakimomo) (Japanese), 천도 복숭아 (cheondo boksung'a) (Korean), сливопраска (slivopraska) [feminine] (Macedonian), нектарина (nektarina) [feminine] (Macedonian), nuċiprisk [masculine] (Maltese), ċiprisk [masculine] (Maltese), ċuprisk [masculine] (Maltese), anċiprisk [masculine] (Maltese), arċiprisk [masculine] (Maltese), teraqî (Northern Kurdish), şelîl (Northern Kurdish), nektarîn (Northern Kurdish), دراقی (durrakı) (Ottoman Turkish), شلیل (šalil) (Persian), nektaryna [feminine] (Polish), nectarina [feminine] (Portuguese), nectarină [feminine] (Romanian), нектари́н (nektarín) [masculine] (Russian), peitseag-lom [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), neacadair [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), nectarina [feminine] (Spanish), nektarin [common-gender] (Swedish), nektarina (Tagalog), nektarin (Turkish), nectarîn [feminine] (Welsh), neithdaren [feminine] (Welsh)
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Inflected forms

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