HONEYSUCKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honeysuckle mean? 

• HONEYSUCKLE (noun)
  The noun HONEYSUCKLE has 3 senses:

1. shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera

2. shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers

3. columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers

  Familiarity information: HONEYSUCKLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEYSUCKLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("honeysuckle" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honeysuckle"):

Lonicera albiflora; white honeysuckle (bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States)

American fly honeysuckle; fly honeysuckle; Lonicera canadensis (erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers)

Italian honeysuckle; Italian woodbine; Lonicera caprifolium (deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls)

Lonicera dioica; yellow honeysuckle (twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged yellow-green flowers; northeastern America)

Lonicera flava; yellow honeysuckle (climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States)

hairy honeysuckle; Lonicera hirsuta (twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America)

Lonicera involucrata; twinberry (shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America)

Japanese honeysuckle; Lonicera japonica (an Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age; has become a weed in some areas)

Hall's honeysuckle; Lonicera japonica halliana (a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States)

Lonicera morrowii; Morrow's honeysuckle (a grey deciduous honeysuckle shrub paired white flowers turning yellow; Japan)

Lonicera periclymenum; woodbine (European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers)

coral honeysuckle; Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet flower; trumpet honeysuckle; trumpet vine (evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers)

bush honeysuckle; Lonicera tatarica; Tartarian honeysuckle (a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia)

European fly honeysuckle; European honeysuckle; Lonicera xylosteum (cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit)

Holonyms ("honeysuckle" is a member of...):

genus Lonicera; Lonicera (woodbine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Australian honeysuckle; Banksia integrifolia; coast banksia; honeysuckle

Hypernyms ("honeysuckle" is a kind of...):

banksia (any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aquilegia canadensis; honeysuckle; meeting house

Hypernyms ("honeysuckle" is a kind of...):

aquilege; aquilegia; columbine (a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains)

Holonyms ("honeysuckle" is a member of...):

genus Aquilegia (columbine)

 Context examples 

“Well said, my sweet honeysuckle!” cried Hordle John.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cottage had been standing empty this eight months, and it was a pity, for it was a pretty two-storied place, with an old-fashioned porch and honeysuckle about it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy arranged her bower, put on her best white frock, smoothed her curls, and sat down to draw under the honeysuckle, hoping someone would see and inquire who the young artist was.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a good four miles of a walk, but when we reached it you would not wish to see a more cosy little house: all honeysuckle and creepers, with a wooden porch and lattice windows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)