honeysuckle
nounUK /ˈhʌnɪsʌk(ə)l/ · US /ˈhʌn.i.sʌk.əl/
Etymology From Middle English honysokel, honisokel, honysocle, hunisuccle, perhaps an alteration of Middle English honysoke, honysouke (“honeysuckle”) (whence honeysuck), from Old English huniġsūce, huniġsūge (“honeysuckle”); equivalent to honey + suck + -le, or honeysuck + -le.
7 senses
- 1Any of the many species of arching shrubs and climbing…
- 2Any of several species of superficially similar plants…
- 3Banksia aquilonia (northern banksia).
- 4Banksia integrifolia (coast banksia).
- 5Banksia marginata (silver banksia).
- 6Banksia serrata (red honeysuckle).
- 7Lambertia multiflora (many-flowered honeysuckle).
1
Any of the many species of arching shrubs and climbing vines of the genus Lonicera in the Caprifoliaceae family, many with sweet-smelling, bell-shaped flowers.
- There was nothing of that luxuriance of blossom which had hitherto clothed the wood, for there were no hawthorns; but the bog-myrtle imparted its tender fragrance, and the caressing honeysuckle wound round many an ancient trunk, odours exhaling from every fairy-like tube—fit trumpets for the heralds of Titania.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 56:
2
Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia.
- Bothered by the conviction of making no impression on her, he pulled up at a strip of road shaded by tall spotted gums, blackbutt, and honeysuckle, and produced a packet of cigarettes. "About time for a smoke-O," he said, "Have a fag, Cora."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 169:
3
Banksia aquilonia (northern banksia).
4
Banksia integrifolia (coast banksia).
5
Banksia marginata (silver banksia).
6
Banksia serrata (red honeysuckle).
7
Lambertia multiflora (many-flowered honeysuckle).
- Derived terms
36 terms
bush honeysuckle, Cape honeysuckle, Chinese honeysuckle, common honeysuckle, coral honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, Etruscan honeysuckle, fly honeysuckle, French honeysuckle, glaucous honeysuckle, goat-leaf honeysuckle, gold-and-silver honeysuckle, golden-and-silver honeysuckle, green honeysuckle, hairy honeysuckle, Hall's honeysuckle, Hall's Japanese honeysuckle, Himalayan honeysuckle, honeysuckle bush, honeysuckled, honeysuckle heath, honeysuckle oak, Italian honeysuckle, Japanese honeysuckle, kaffir honeysuckle, limber honeysuckle, many-flowered honeysuckle, native honeysuckle, New Zealand honeysuckle, red honeysuckle, scarlet honeysuckle, silvery honeysuckle, small honeysuckle, Tartarian honeysuckle, trumpet honeysuckle, white honeysuckle- Related terms
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