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La acacia tiene también nectarios, pero no son parte de sus flores.
The acacia also has nectaries, but these are not part of its flowers.
Los nectarios están situados en la base de las hojas, y su única función es proveer a las hormigas con el almíbar al que son muy aficionadas.
The nectaries are situated at the base of the leaves, and the sole function is to provide ants with the sugary liquid of which they're very fond.
y piezas complejas de la boca podía ahondar en el más profundo nectario.
and complex mouth parts could delve into the deepest nectary.
Tienen lenguas mucho mas largas que sus parientes y eso les permite beber de los profundos nectarios.
They have much longer tongues than their relatives, nectar teetotallers, and that enables them to drink from the palm's deep nectaries.
En el centro, el olor de un cuerpo que conocía desde que lo había traído al mundo, inconfundible para ella como el aroma que lleva a una perra hasta su cachorro, y estaba mezclado con los aromas de la sexualidad extraída de la glándula nectaria femenina.
warm in the core of it was the smell of a body she had known since she gave birth to him, unmistakable to her as the scent that leads a bitch to her puppy, and it was mingled with the scents of sexuality caressed from the female nectary.
Me dio el capricho de trabar mejor conocimiento con «William Markwick, Esq., F.L.S.», que había visto personalmente a la Sphinx stellatarum insertar su probóscide en el nectario de una flor «sin detener el vuelo».
The whim took me to try and become a little better acquainted with ‘William Markwick, Esq., F.L.S.’ who had himself seen the sphinx stellatarum inserting its proboscis into the nectary of a flower while ‘keeping constantly on the wing’.
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