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

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

• Audio (US):

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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.
2. Any of several species of similar plants from Australia
   1. Banksia aquilonia (northern banksia)
   2. (coast banksia)
   3. (silver banksia)
   4. (red honeysuckle)
   5. (many-flowered honeysuckle)

Derived terms

• Cape honeysuckle ()
• Chinese honeysuckle (Combretum indicum)
• common honeysuckle ()
• French honeysuckle ()
• goat-leaf honeysuckle ()
• green honeysuckle ()
• hairy honeysuckle ()
• Himalayan honeysuckle ()
• honeysuckle bush ()
• honeysuckle oak ()
• Italian honeysuckle ()
• many-flowered honeysuckle ()
• native honeysuckle ()
• New Zealand honeysuckle ()
• red honeysuckle ()
• silvery honeysuckle ()
• Tartarian honeysuckle ()
• white honeysuckle ()

 

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: 忍冬 (zh) (rĕndōng), 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: madreselva f, chuchamel m, cadrifollo m
• German: Geißblatt n, Heckenkirsche (de) f
• Greek: αγιόκλημα (el) n (agióklima)

  Ancient: κλύμενον n (klúmenon)

• Hungarian: lonc (hu)
• Ido: kaprifolio (io)
• Indonesian: kamperfuli
• Irish: féithleann (ga) m
• Italian: caprifoglio m
• Latin: caprifolium n
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• 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
• 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