Definition of Japanese honeysuckle

1. Noun. An Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age; has become a weed in some areas.

Exact synonyms: Lonicera Japonica
Group relationships: Genus Lonicera, Lonicera
Generic synonyms: Honeysuckle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Honeysuckle

Japanese bunching onions
Japanese capital
Japanese cedar
Japanese cherry
Japanese chess
Japanese chestnut
Japanese crab
Japanese deer
Japanese deity
Japanese dysentery
Japanese encephalitis
Japanese flowering cherry
Japanese foods
Japanese giant salamander
Japanese honeysuckle (current term)
Japanese hop
Japanese horseradish
Japanese iris
Japanese ivy
Japanese knotweed
Japanese lacquer tree
Japanese lantern
Japanese lanterns
Japanese leaf
Japanese leek
Japanese lilac
Japanese lime
Japanese linden

Literary usage of Japanese honeysuckle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Garden, Its Plan and Culture Together with a General Description of Its by Alfred Smee (1872)
"Following this, we have the Japanese honeysuckle (fig. ... Japanese honeysuckle. It can be freely propagated by cuttings, and should ever have a place in ..."

2. School and Home Gardens by William Herman Dietrich Meier (1913)
"FIG. 90. Aerial Roots by Means of which the Trumpet Vine clings to Walls FIG. 89. Honeysuckle THE Japanese honeysuckle Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera ..."

3. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration by Samuel Taylor Maynard (1915)
"Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera Japonica Halliana). yellow, changing to a pure white, and are fragrant and abundant from June to September. ..."

4. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1866)
"Another Japanese honeysuckle, from Mrs. Wyatt, of Upper Tooting, growing on a flat trellis, was a very creditable specimen of in-door culture. ..."

5. Pamphlets on Forestry in Michigan (1898)
"Japanese honeysuckle. In the Botanic Garden east of the Chemical Laboratory. ... Variegated Japanese honeysuckle. West of the Horticultural Laboratory. ..."

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