nectary
/ˈnɛk.təɹi/noun
nectary is a noun meaning “A gland that secretes nectar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-C-T-A-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nectary is nectaries.
What does nectary mean?
noun
- 1
A gland that secretes nectar
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nectary?
- UK /ˈnɛk.t(ə)ɹi/
- US /ˈnɛk.təɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nectary
- nectaries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nectary?
Nectary appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Nectary in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense gland that secretes nectar:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.