trumpet honeysuckle

American  

noun

1. an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.

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trumpet honeysuckle British  

noun

1. a North American honeysuckle shrub, Lonicera sempervirens , having orange, scarlet, or yellow trumpet-shaped flowers

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Etymology

Origin of trumpet honeysuckle

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35

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trumpet honeysuckle

Vines wind around the columns, cross from one line of columns to another and form above a tracery of green fronds bearing, as it was then, red flowers, a sort of trumpet honeysuckle.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.

Coral or trumpet honeysuckle, L. sempervirens.* 6-15 ft.;

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

Porch and verandah were covered with Virginia creeper, climbing roses and trumpet honeysuckle.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

The greater part of the way our road was shaded by woods on the water-side, live-oaks with their ornamental moss, gum-trees and pines with quantities of cat-brier and trumpet honeysuckle in full bloom.

From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Pearson, Elizabeth Ware