honeysuckle

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I'm eagerly awaiting honeysuckle which is only available seasonally.

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  1. noun Any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lonicera, having opposite leaves, fragrant, usually paired tubular flowers, and small berries.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related plants.

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  • I'm eagerly awaiting honeysuckle which is only available seasonally. —  Cool Mom Picks
  • I expect I'm nearly as strong for this suburban life stuff as she is, but whenever she gets a bit gushy about it, which she's apt to such nights as we've been havin' recent, with the moon full and the summer strikin' its first stride, I'm apt to let on that I feel different You see, she'd towed me out on the back terrace to smell how sweet the honeysuckle was and watch the moon sail up over the tall locust trees beyond the vegetable garden Isn't it a perfectly gorgeous night, Torchy?" —  Torchy and Vee
  • How quickly it responds to the Autumn showers, and long after the honeysuckle has died, and the bees have forgotten its rank memory, this beautiful creature of love blooms in the very lap of Winter O love that defies even the breath of death The yellow lips of the honeysuckle are thick and sensual; but the beautiful petals of this cluster of love-cells, all so daintily transparent, hanging in pink clusters of loveliness with scalloped lips of purity, that even the sunbeam sends a photograph of his heart through them and every moonbeam writes in it the romance of its life. —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
  • Let us all come to the lanes, where the honeysuckle is hanging ZOON: I love not in the lanes MOOMOOMON: Not in the lanes? —  Plays of Near ; Far
  • One window is wholly shaded by sweet honeysuckle, which is now in blossom, filling the room with its mild fragrance. —  Life of Father Hecker
 

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  1. Middle English honysoukel, alteration of honisouke, from Old English hunīsūce : hunig, honey + sūcan, to suck; see suck.

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  1. from Middle English honysocle, hunisuccle (the alleged Anglo-Saxon *hunigsucle is due to a mistake), a diminutive form of the more common Middle English honysouke, from Anglo-Saxon hunisuce, hunisuge, hunigsuge, from hunig, honey, + sūcan, sūgan, suck: see honey and suck. The name was applied to various plants, the Middle English forms being variously glossed ligustrum (privet), locusta (for ligustrum?), cerifolium (chervil), serpillum (wild thyme), apiago (which elsewhere glosses Anglo-Saxon beówyrt, ‘bee-wort,’ and Middle High German binsuge, binesaug, as if ‘bee-suck’); the Anglo-Saxon forms are always glossed ligustrum (privet). The name means ‘a plant from which honey is sucked,’ namely by bees, as the name apiago (from Latin apis, a bee) and the Middle High German binsuge, above mentioned, indicate. Other names are English woodbine, Middle Latin caprifolium (glossing Middle English wodebynde, woodbine), Dutch kamperfoelie, French chèvrefeuille, etc. (see caprifole, caprifolium), G. geissblatt, literally ‘goat-leaf,’ etc.
 

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