NECTARY, noun In botany, the melliferous part of a vegetable, peculiar to the flower. It usually makes a part of the corol, gut is sometimes distinct from it. Sometimes ti is in the form of a horn or spur; sometimes in that of a cup; whence it is called the honey cup.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI