honeysuckle
honeysuckle — noun
- honeysucklesingular
- honeysucklesplural
1. A climbing plant that produces sweet-smelling flowers, which are often white, ye
A climbing plant that produces sweet-smelling flowers, which are often white, yellow, or pink in colour. The flowers contain a tiny drop of nectar that can be sucked out.
Mei-Lin planted a <hw>honeysuckle</hw> vine along the garden fence last spring.
collocation: honeysuckle vine
The sweet smell of <hw>honeysuckle</hw> filled the evening air as Boris walked home from work.
collocation: smell of honeysuckle
As children, Lucia and her brother often picked <hw>honeysuckle</hw> flowers and tasted the sweet nectar inside each one.
Chitra trimmed the <hw>honeysuckle</hw> hedge so it would not block the kitchen window.
- woodbine
A traditional British name for wild honeysuckle, especially the common species Lonicera periclymenum. Less common in everyday use.
用法筆記
Honeysuckle is usually uncountable when referring to the plant in general ('a patch of honeysuckle'), but it can be countable when talking about individual plants or species ('three different honeysuckles in the garden').