honeysuckle

See also: Honeysuckle

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌnɪsʌk(ə)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌniːsʌkəl/

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Noun

honeysuckle (countable and uncountable, plural honeysuckles)

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.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 56:

     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.

2. Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 169:

     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."

   1. Banksia aquilonia (northern banksia)
   2. Banksia integrifolia (coast banksia)
   3. Banksia marginata (silver banksia)
   4. Banksia serrata (red honeysuckle)
   5. Lambertia multiflora (many-flowered honeysuckle)

Derived terms

• Cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis)
• Chinese honeysuckle (Combretum indicum)
• common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum)
• dwarf honeysuckle
• fly honeysuckle
• French honeysuckle (Hedysarum coronarium)
• glaucous honeysuckle
• goat-leaf honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium)
• green honeysuckle (Lambertia rariflora)
• hairy honeysuckle (Helicia ferruginea)
• Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa)
• honeysuckle bush (Triunia youngiana)
• honeysuckle oak (Banksia integrifolia)
• Italian honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium)
• limber honeysuckle
• many-flowered honeysuckle (Lambertia multiflora)
• native honeysuckle (Triunia youngiana)
• New Zealand honeysuckle (Knightia excelsa)
• red honeysuckle (Banksia serrata)
• silvery honeysuckle (Grevillea striata)
• small honeysuckle
• Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)
• white honeysuckle (Banksia integrifolia)

 

Translations

plant

• Azerbaijani: doqquzdon
• Basque: atxapar
• Belarusian: бружмель f (bružmjelʹ)
• Breton: (collective) gwezvoud, gwezvoudenn f
• Bulgarian: орлови нокти (orlovi nokti)
• Catalan: lligabosc m, xuclamel m
• Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎩᏞᎨᎢ (gvnagitlegei), ᏩᎴᎳ ᎤᏂᏥᎳᎩᏍᏗ (walela unitsilagisdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忍冬 (zh) (rěndōng), 金銀花／金银花 (zh) (jīnyínhuā)

• Czech: zimolez (cs) m
• Danish: gedeblad c, kaprifolie c
• Dutch: kamperfoelie (nl) f
• Estonian: kuslapuu
• Finnish: kuusama (fi)
• French: chèvrefeuille (fr) m
• Galician: chuchamel m, cadrifollo m, madreselva f
• German: Geißblatt n, Heckenkirsche (de) f
• Greek: αγιόκλημα (el) n (agióklima)

  Ancient: κλύμενον n (klúmenon), κυκλάμινος ἑτέρα (kukláminos hetéra)

• Hungarian: lonc (hu)
• Ido: kaprifolio (io)
• Indonesian: kamperfuli
• Ingrian: kuusan
• Irish: féithleann (ga) m
• Italian: caprifoglio m
• Latin: caprifolium n
• Lithuanian: sausmedis m
• Maori: rewarewa
• Middle English: honysoke, honysokel
• Norman: brout-à-bique m, quièvrefeul m
• Norwegian: leddved m

  Bokmål: vivendel m

  Nynorsk: vivendel m

• Occitan: caprifuèlh m
• Persian: پلخوم (palxum)
• Polish: wiciokrzew (pl) m, suchodrzew (pl) m
• Portuguese: madressilva f
• Romanian: caprifoi (ro) m
• Russian: жи́молость (ru) f (žímolostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: deolag f, iadh-shlat f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: kozylist m

• Spanish: madreselva (es) f
• Swedish: kaprifol (sv) c, try (sv) c
• Tajik: мушол (mušol)
• Tatar: зелпе (tt) (zelpe)
• Turkish: hanımeli (tr)
• Ukrainian: жи́молость f (žýmolostʹ)
• Uzbek: shilvi
• Welsh: llaeth y gaseg f, gwyddfid m
• West Frisian: papsûger, kamperfoelje

See also

• woodbine