"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His lips sipped at it, his tongue flicking into the small crevice as though it were a precious receptacle containing rare nectar.
- The round end of the spur contains nectar, which is sought by butterflies and hummingbirds.
- They cause the bees to lose their ability to distinguish between flowers that contain nectar and those that don't.
- Each cell contains pollen and nectar, then one egg is laid inside a cell.
- The flowers contain sweet nectar, and the foliage can be eaten or boiled to make a drink.
- Boiling down the flower clusters containing nectar can make a sugary sweetener.
- At 7-15 cm long Passiflora mixta has a hypanthium - otherwise known as the flower tube - with a base that contains nectar.
- They are pollinators of the passionflower, which contain nectar at the bottom of the long corolla tube that belongs to the P. mixta.
- Only the bottom half-inch of this contains nectar.
- There could be dozens of yellow flowers, of similar shape and size in a given field, yet only one or two might contain nectar.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.