Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lonicera, having opposite leaves, fragrant, usually paired tubular flowers, and small berries.
- noun Any of various similar or related plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The color of the flowers of the common honeysuckle; “a combination of pale pink and even paler yellow.”
- noun A name of upright or climbing shrubs of the genus Lonicera, natural order Caprifoliaceœ, natives of the temperate parts of both hemispheres.
- noun A plant of some other genus.
- noun The flower of any of the above plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the many
species of archingshrubs and climbingvines of thegenus Lonicera in theCaprifoliaceae family , many withsweet smelling, bell shaped flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera
- noun shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers
- noun columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I stumbled on foundations of long-gone buildings, up the hill, under the gloom of oak and basswood trees, buried in honeysuckle, blackberry wild geranium.
alice d’alessio | three poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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I stumbled on foundations of long-gone buildings, up the hill, under the gloom of oak and basswood trees, buried in honeysuckle, blackberry wild geranium.
January « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Mention the word honeysuckle to Kevin and he will instinctively recite childhood memories that involve raiding honeysuckle bushes for nectar.
Archive 2007-08-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2007
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Mention the word honeysuckle to Kevin and he will instinctively recite childhood memories that involve raiding honeysuckle bushes for nectar.
On the Horizon: Honeysuckle Berries Michelle Krell Kydd 2007
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At the end of the book, Bernie says: "That honeysuckle is but one link in an endless limbic chain that contains all the smells of my family and of our life together."
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The fly-honeysuckle is in full leaf, as well as in flower; it is one of our earliest shrubs.
Rural Hours 1887
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See! the honeysuckle is twined in the thorn above our heads, and is giving out its scent around us, as if to bid us we1come
Parables From Nature 1857
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The face of the hill on the south side of the entrance possesses some good soil; and at the time of our visit* was covered with a profusion of herbage, and studded with groups of banksia, which the colonists call the honeysuckle; the wood of which is useful in ship-building on account of the crooked growth of its stem.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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Finally, in the Erechtheum the upper part or necking of the shaft is enriched with an exquisitely wrought band of floral ornament, the so-called honeysuckle pattern.
A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886
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One window is wholly shaded by sweet honeysuckle, which is now in blossom, filling the room with its mild fragrance.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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