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
The wild honeysuckle is in bloom there; I noticed it riding to Charlottesville the other morning.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
The scent of wild honeysuckle and cluster roses came from the hedgerows.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)
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.
The wild honeysuckle was alive with quick whirrings of hummingbirds, and he hung his pocket-mirror from a twig and shaved with a woodsy chorus in his ears.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
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