white honeysuckle

white honeysuckle
noun
1. bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States
Syn: ↑Lonicera albiflora
Hypernyms: ↑honeysuckle
Member Holonyms: ↑Lonicera, ↑genus Lonicera
2. shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle
Hypernyms: ↑rhododendron

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noun
2. dialect England : white clover
3. : honeysuckle 2b

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white honeysuckle noun
An azalea known also as the clammy or swamp azalea
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