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

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 Besant, Walter, Sir

But there was one scene that his memory held in unfading colors:— Roses and wild honeysuckle climbing over a bank by the road-side.

From Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

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.

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 Flaubert, Gustave