wild honeysuckle

American  

noun

1. pinxter flower.

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Etymology

Origin of wild honeysuckle

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65

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wild honeysuckle

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

The scent of wild honeysuckle and cluster roses came from the hedgerows.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

Then his fear left him and he grew bolder, for he was very hungry, and he could smell the vegetables and the wild honeysuckle in the still night air.

From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan

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 Amanda Minnie Douglas

But the everlasting hills abide, and the meadows still lie green and flowery, and the roses and wild honeysuckle still blossom in the hedge.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant