Other forms: nectarines
A nectarine is a smooth-skinned relative of the peach. A ripe nectarine, nectarines and plums, a white nectarine.
It is the same species and differs by a single gene, so a peach tree can produce nectarines and the other way round. The name comes from nectar, the drink of the gods, which is a fair claim for a good one.
1nounnectarineA smooth-skinned relative of the peach.
“She bit into a juicy nectarine, and the sweet juice ran down her chin.”
nectarine is a fruit.
Proto-Indo-European
*neḱ- — perish, disappear
Ancient Greek
νέκταρ — nourishment of the gods
Latin
nectar
English
nectar
English, today
nectarine
Built from
From nectar + -ine. nectar comes from Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (“nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + -tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA