wild honeysuckle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wild honeysuckle
An Americanism dating back to 1755–65
Example Sentences
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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
Somewhere near a wild honeysuckle bloomed and the fragrance of its blooming came drifting to them.
From Stubble by George Looms
At other times he sowed seeds of the cucumber tree, chickory and "colliflower" and planted ivy and wild honeysuckle.
From George Washington: Farmer by Paul Leland Haworth
A capricious cluster of wild honeysuckle covers the sill, and its maze of perfumed blossoms creeps along the walls.
From Over Strand and Field by Gustave Flaubert
Into this she put the violets and wild honeysuckle, resolving to take it home as a present to her mother.
From A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia by Alice Turner Curtis
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