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Definitions of nectar in various dictionaries:
noun - a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators
noun - fruit juice especially when undiluted
noun - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods
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| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey |
| Female gnats have mandibles for bloodsucking; males don't, & feed on this liquid, like gods |
| This thin watery liquid that bees collect from flowers is used to make honey |
| The "Sea of" this sweet plant secretion that attracts insects & birds |
| The animal seen here is loaded up with this saccharine secretion |
| The honey possum, a tiny marsupial, feeds on this sweet liquid, a favorite of hummingbirds |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue with a tray of bees in front of her.) Honey is produced by the evaporation of this liquid that bees collect from flowers & then regurgitate |
| It's the drink of the gods, & of honeybees |
| This drink of the gods on Mt. Olympus was said to resemble red wine |
| In the digestive tract, some bees turn this flower product into honey |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| a sugary fluid secreted within flowers to encourage pollination by insects and other animals, collected by bees to make into honey. |
| A sweet liquid secreted by flowers of various plants, consumed by pollinators, such as hummingbirds and insects, and gathered by bees for making honey. |
| Greek amp Roman Mythology The drink of the gods. |
| A delicious or invigorating drink. |
| fruit juice especially when undiluted |
| a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators |
| (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods mortals who ate it became immortal |
| a sweet liquid produced by flowers and collected by bees and other insects: |
| in ancient Greek and Roman stories, the drink of the gods: |
| a sweet liquid produced by flowers and collected by bees: |
| Nectar description |
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Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollinators include mosquitoes, hoverflies, wasps, bees, butterflies and moths, hummingbirds, and bats. Nectar plays an important role in the foraging economics and overall evolution of nectar-eating species; for example, nectar and its properties are responsible for the differential evolution of the African honey bee, A. m. scutellata and the western honey bee. * Nectar is an ecologically important item, the sugar source for honey. It is also useful in agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory insects feed on nectar. For example, the social wasp species Apoica flavissima relies on nectar as a primary food source. In turn, these wasps then hunt agricultural pes |