honeysuckle : Idioms & Phrases


american fly honeysuckle

  • noun erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers
    Lonicera canadensis; American fly honeysuckle.
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australian honeysuckle

  • noun shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers
    honeysuckle; Banksia integrifolia; coast banksia.
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bush honeysuckle

  • noun a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia
    bush honeysuckle; Lonicera tatarica.
  • noun bush honeysuckle of southeastern United States having large crowded clusters of sulfur-yellow flowers
    Diervilla sessilifolia.
  • noun spreading bush of northeastern United States having small clusters of fragrant green and yellow flowers
    Diervilla lonicera.
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coral honeysuckle

  • noun evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
    Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet vine; coral honeysuckle; trumpet flower.
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european fly honeysuckle

  • noun cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit
    European fly honeysuckle; Lonicera xylosteum.
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european honeysuckle

  • noun cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit
    European fly honeysuckle; Lonicera xylosteum.
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Fly honeysuckle

  • noun erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers
    Lonicera canadensis; American fly honeysuckle.
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  • (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus (Lonicera), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as L. ciliata and L. Xylosteum.
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French honeysuckle

  • noun European herb with small fragrant crimson or white spurred flowers
    red valerian; Centranthus ruber.
  • noun perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop
    sulla; Hedysarum coronarium.
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  • (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); called also garland honeysuckle.
Webster 1913

hairy honeysuckle

  • noun twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America
    Lonicera hirsuta.
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hall's honeysuckle

  • noun a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States
    Lonicera japonica halliana.
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himalaya honeysuckle

  • noun shrub honeysuckle with drooping spikes of purplish flowers
    Leycesteria formosa.
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honeysuckle family

  • noun shrubs and small trees and woody vines
    family Caprifoliaceae; Caprifoliaceae.
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italian honeysuckle

  • noun deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls
    Lonicera caprifolium; Italian woodbine.
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jamaica honeysuckle

  • noun West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit
    yellow granadilla; Passiflora laurifolia.
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japanese honeysuckle

  • noun an Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age; has become a weed in some areas
    Lonicera japonica.
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morrow's honeysuckle

  • noun a grey deciduous honeysuckle shrub paired white flowers turning yellow; Japan
    Lonicera morrowii.
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new zealand honeysuckle

  • noun slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber
    rewa-rewa.
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swamp fly honeysuckle

  • noun a variety of fly honeysuckle
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Swamp honeysuckle

  • noun shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle
    Rhododendron viscosum; swamp honeysuckle; swamp azalea.
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  • (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, ∨ Rhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; called also swamp pink.
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tartarian honeysuckle

  • noun a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia
    bush honeysuckle; Lonicera tatarica.
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Trumpet honeysuckle

  • noun evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
    Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet vine; coral honeysuckle; trumpet flower.
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  • (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; called also trumpet flower.
Webster 1913

white honeysuckle

  • noun bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States
    Lonicera albiflora.
  • noun shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle
    Rhododendron viscosum; swamp honeysuckle; swamp azalea.
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yellow honeysuckle

  • noun climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States
    Lonicera flava.
  • noun twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged yellow-green flowers; northeastern America
    Lonicera dioica.
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