Word: nectareous
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...capturing their prey (ostensibly nothing larger than insects) are in some measure common to all. But Professor Lloyd breaks down their "trapping mechanisms" into six categories -pitfalls, lobster pots, snares, flypaper or birdlime traps, steel traps and mousetraps. The plants lure their victims by odors, the secretion of nectar and mucilage, the display of bright colors. With few exceptions, the plants have means of digesting their prey.* Enzymes and acids are excreted, and when these are accumulated together with the prey, something like an animal stomach results...
Though the gods drank nectar, pollen would have been far better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each...
...sloth can swim milewide rivers. Plants grow on him. A heart, removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...
...holiday on Thursday would be a boon to all elbow-benders at Harvard. Nectar's gift to the grandstands would receive its full share of attention if the pending defeat of Eli were to be celebrated beginning Thursday," Davis said...
...insularity. His first move was to slash the price from 25? to 10? a copy. Second was to junk all purely literary features. He then divided the magazine into four general departments: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Foods (a Sunset All-Western Thanksgiving dinner included chilled papaya nectar, tortilla chips, spiced loquats and steamed persimmon pudding), and Western Travel...