yellow honeysuckle

yellow honeysuckle
noun
1. twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged yellow-green flowers; northeastern America
Syn: ↑Lonicera dioica
Hypernyms: ↑honeysuckle
Member Holonyms: ↑Lonicera, ↑genus Lonicera
2. climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States
Syn: ↑Lonicera flava
Hypernyms: ↑honeysuckle
Member Holonyms: ↑Lonicera, ↑genus Lonicera

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noun
1. : either of two honeysuckles:
a. : a woody vine (Lonicera dioica) of eastern No. America with yellowish green flowers
b. : a twining or loosely climbing shrub (L. flava) of the southern United States with orange-yellow flowers

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a spreading, twining vine, Lonicera flava, of the southern and eastern U.S., having fragrant, tubular, orange-yellow flowers.
[1830-40, Amer.]

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