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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
Noun
honeysuckle (countable and uncountable, plural honeysuckles)
- 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.
- 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."
- Banksia aquilonia (northern banksia)
- Banksia integrifolia (coast banksia)
- Banksia marginata (silver banksia)
- Banksia serrata (red honeysuckle)
- Lambertia multiflora (many-flowered honeysuckle)
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- 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
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