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- noun Any
plant of thegenus Lonicera, thehoneysuckles .
Etymologies
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Yew and holly are slower growing and physically more resilient than high-maintenance, softer, semi-evergreen hedges such as lonicera and privet, which need to be cut twice or three times during the summer.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Moving on, this simple lonicera sempervirens, a native here, is showing us the brilliant orangey gold within the coral trumpets.
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Lonicera Halliana lonicera species loose-strife lotus lovage luffa
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In England, according to Pereira, the blistering beetle is found on species of the Oleaceæ, as the ash, privet, and lilac, and upon the elder and lonicera.
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The English call them wild honeysuckles, and at a distance they really have a resemblance to the honeysuckle or lonicera.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836
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'Rotstrahlbusch' pennisetum, lonicera sempervirens.
A Study in Contrasts 2008
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