wild honeysuckle

American  

noun

1. pinxter flower.

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Etymology

Origin of wild honeysuckle

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65

Example Sentences

Finding one, I’d stroll its winding streets, and I’d admire the houses set back in woods, with moths orbiting porch lights, the smell of wild honeysuckle, and the tic–tic–tic of midnight sprinklers.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

Snowdrop, crocus, hepatica, and coltsfoot, wild honeysuckle, were all about, the forsythia flared out her saucy yellow, the fruit buds swelled.

From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Large white butterflies went past them, and a hummingbird whirred into the heart of a wild honeysuckle that had hasted to bloom.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary

The poet probably refers to the Rhododendron Viscosum, or as some call it the Asalia viscosun since it is the only flower popularly known as the wild honeysuckle that is both white and fragrant.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

There was a nostalgic calling of night-birds, the clean breath of pines and, from some tangled rocky slope, the faint pervading perfume of wild honeysuckle.

From Assignment's End by Aycock, Roger D.