English Explanatory Dictionary

honeysuckle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  2. Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia
  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)
name
  1. A female given name.
  2. A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
name
  1. The ship of characters Kim and Basil from the video game Omori.

Pronunciation

/ˈhʌnɪsʌk(ə)l/ /ˈhʌniːsʌkəl/ en-us-honeysuckle.ogg

Word forms

honeysuckle honeysuckles

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.

Related words

woodbine

Derived words

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 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

Translations

Arabic: صَرِيمَة الْجَدْي Azerbaijani: doqquzdon Basque: atxapar Belarusian: бружмель Breton: gwezvoud Breton: gwezvoudenn Bulgarian: орлови нокти Catalan: lligabosc Catalan: xuclamel Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎩᏞᎨᎢ Cherokee: ᏩᎴᎳ ᎤᏂᏥᎳᎩᏍᏗ Chinese Mandarin: 忍冬 Chinese Mandarin: 金銀花 /金银花 Cornish: gwydhvos Cornish: gwydhvosen Czech: zimolez Danish: gedeblad Danish: kaprifolie Dutch: kamperfoelie Estonian: kuslapuu Finnish: kuusama French: chèvrefeuille West-Frisian: papsûger West-Frisian: kamperfoelje Galician: chuchamel Galician: cadrifollo Galician: madreselva German: Geißblatt German: Heckenkirsche Greek: αγιόκλημα Ancient Greek: κλύμενον Ancient Greek: κυκλάμινος ἑτέρα Hungarian: lonc Ido: kaprifolio Indonesian: kamperfuli Ingrian: kuusan Irish: féithleann Italian: caprifoglio Kyrgyz: жилби Latin: caprifolium Lithuanian: sausmedis Macedonian: анамска рака Māori: rewarewa Middle English: honysoke Middle English: honysokel Norman: brout-à-bique Norman: quièvrefeul Norwegian: leddved Norwegian Bokmål: vivendel Norwegian Nynorsk: vivendel Occitan: caprifuèlh Persian: پلخوم Persian: پیچ امین الدوله Persian: سفیدآل Persian: سفیدال Persian: شَن Persian: شان Persian: شین Persian: شونگ Polish: wiciokrzew Polish: suchodrzew
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