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honeysuckle
(hʌnisʌkəl)
Word forms: plural honeysuckles
variable noun
Honeysuckle is a climbing plant with sweet-smelling yellow, pink, or white flowers.
honeysuckle in British English
(ˈhʌnɪˌsʌkəl)
noun
1.
any temperate caprifoliaceous shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera: cultivated for their fragrant white, yellow, or pink tubular flowers
2.
any of several similar plants
3.
any of various Australian trees or shrubs of the genus Banksia, having flowers in dense spikes: family Proteaceae
Derived forms
honeysuckled (ˈhoneyˌsuckled) adjective
Word origin
Old English hunigsūce, from honey + suck; see sucklehoneysuckle in American English
(ˈhʌniˌsʌkəl)
noun
1.
any of a genus (Lonicera) of plants of the honeysuckle family, with small, fragrant flowers of red, yellow,or white
2.
any of several similar plants with fragrant flowers, esp. columbine
adjective
3.
designating a family (Caprifoliaceae, order Dipsacales) of dicotyledonous, mostly woody plants, including the coralberry and elder
Word origin
ME honisocle, dim. (see -le) < OE hunigsuce (Brit dial. honeysuck) < hunig, honey + sucan, to suckImage ofhoneysuckle
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British English: honeysuckle /ˈhʌnɪˌsʌkl/ NOUN
Honeysuckle is a climbing plant with sweet-smelling yellow, pink, or white flowers.
- American English: honeysuckle
- Arabic: سُلْطَانُ الـجَبَل
- Brazilian Portuguese: madressilva
- Chinese: 金银花
- Croatian: kozja krv
- Czech: zimolez
- Danish: kaprifolium
- Dutch: kamperfoelie
- European Spanish: madreselva
- Finnish: kuusama
- French: chèvrefeuille
- German: Geißblatt
- Greek: αγιόκλημα
- Italian: caprifoglio
- Japanese: スイカズラ
- Korean: 인동덩굴
- Norwegian: kaprifolium
- Polish: wiciokrzew
- European Portuguese: madressilva
- Romanian: caprifoi
- Russian: жимолость
- Latin American Spanish: madreselva
- Swedish: kaprifol
- Thai: ต้นไม้เลื้อยชนิดหนึ่งมีกลิ่นหอม
- Turkish: hanımeli
- Ukrainian: жимолость
- Vietnamese: cây kim ngân
Chinese translation of 'honeysuckle'
honeysuckle
(ˈhʌnɪsʌkl)
n (u)
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金银(銀)花
(jīnyínhuā)