Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Diervilla. See
honeysuckle , 2. - noun Any species of true honeysuckle with a bushy habit, including, therefore, the fly-honeysuckles; particularly, Lonicera Tatarica, the Tatarian bush-honeysuckle, an ornamental species native in southeast Russia and Siberia.
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Observed the yellow diervilla or bush-honeysuckle still in flower.
Rural Hours 1887
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Americana (American mountain-ash), Corylus rostrata (beaked hazel-nut), Diervilla trifida (bush-honeysuckle), Prunus Virginiana (choke-cherry), Myrica gale (sweet-gale), Nemopanthes Canadensis (mountain holly), Cephalanthus occidentalis (button-bush), Ribes prostratum, in some places (fetid currant).
The Maine Woods 1858
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