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Definition of French honeysuckle

1. Noun. European herb with small fragrant crimson or white spurred flowers.

2. Noun. Perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop.

Definition of French honeysuckle

1. Noun. A perennial herb, ''Hedysarum coronarium'', native to Northern Africa and Spain. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of French Honeysuckle

French drain French drains French dressing French dressing for fruit salad French endive French flag problem French flap French foreign office French franc French francs

French fries French fritter French fry French grip French heel French honeysuckle (current term) French horn French horns French inhale French inhaled

French inhales French inhaling French kiss French kissed French kisser French kissers French kisses French kissing French knickers French knot

Literary usage of French honeysuckle

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"H. coronarium is neither a honeysuckle nor a native of France ; and whilst we call it French honeysuckle the French people name it Spanish Sainfoin and ..."

2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"... of which have purple or white flowers, but they are rarely seen in British gardens. GENUS XIII. HEDYSARUM, Dec. ; THE French honeysuckle. Lin. Syst. ..."

3. The Compounding of English Words: When and why Joining Or Separation is by Francis Horace Teall (1891)
"... be an illogical confusion like this: Dutch clinker, Dutch oven, Indian corn, Indian cress, Indian file, French-berry, French-chalk, French-honeysuckle, ..."

4. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"The French honeysuckle. ... the French honeysuckle, the species most usually cultivated, is a perennial herb, with spikes of deep red flowers. ..."

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