nectarine
- noun
- B2
- less common
A sweet round fruit with smooth red and yellow skin, a soft yellow inside and a hard stone in the middle.
She packed two nectarines and a bottle of water for lunch.
Nectarines go soft very quickly once they are ripe.
I prefer nectarines to peaches because the skin is smooth.
She sliced a nectarine over her bowl of morning porridge.
Common collocations: a ripe nectarine · a juicy nectarine · white-fleshed nectarine · nectarine stone · slice a nectarine
Part of: Fruit
Forms
- plural
- nectarines