any temperate caprifoliaceous shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera: cultivated for their fragrant white, yellow, or pink tubular flowers any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Banksia, having flowers in dense spikes: family Proteaceae
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hon•ey•suck•le /ˈhʌniˌsʌkəl/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Plant Biologyan upright or climbing shrub grown for its sweet-smelling, tube-like flowers.
hon•ey•suck•le
(hun′ē suk′əl),USA pronunciation n.
hon′ey•suck′led, adj.
- Plant Biologyany upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, esp. D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- 1225–75; Middle English honiesoukel, equivalent. to honisouke (Old English hunigsūce; see honey, suck) + -el -le
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'honeysuckle' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Chinese snowball
- Indian currant
- Jamaica honeysuckle
- Japanese honeysuckle
- Tartarian honeysuckle
- abelia
- anthemion
- banksia
- beauty-bush
- bush honeysuckle
- caprifoliaceous
- coral honeysuckle
- dockmackie
- elder
- fly honeysuckle
- guelder rose
- hobblebush
- honeysuckle family
- honeysuckle ornament
- horse gentian
- laurustinus
- lonicera
- pinxter flower
- sheepberry
- snowball
- snowberry
- trumpet flower
- trumpet honeysuckle
- twinberry
- viburnum
- wayfaring tree
- weigela
- wild honeysuckle
- wolfberry
- woodbine
- yellow granadilla
- yellow honeysuckle