Word Meanings - HONEYSUCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;

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One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; L. Periclymenum, the fragrant woodbine of England; L. grata, the American woodbine, and L. sempervirens, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is L. Xylosteum; the American, L. ciliata. The American Pinxter flower is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name Australian honeysuckle is applied to one or more trees of the genus Banksia. See French honeysuckle, under French.

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• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• ADMIRED
  1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. 2. Wonderful; also, admirable. "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• ADMIRING
  Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• JAPONICA
  A species of Camellia , a native of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers. Many other genera have species of the same name.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• CULTIVATABLE
  Cultivable.
• ADMIRABLE
  1. Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• ADMIRANCE
  Admiration. Spenser.
• ADMIRAL
  A handsome butterfly of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell , the popular name of an ornamental cone shell . Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who is at the head of the naval administration of
• ADMIRABLENESS
  The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.