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Definition of Hairy honeysuckle

1. Noun. Twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairy Honeysuckle

Literary usage of Hairy honeysuckle

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

1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The hairy honeysuckle, the smooth honeysuckle, ... The hairy honeysuckle is known by its hairy leaves. The smooth-leafed honeysuckle has red berries. ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1860)
"The hairy honeysuckle (L. hirsuta, Eaton) is a much more attractive species, having large, coarse, hairy leaves, and bright, orange-colored, open, ..."

3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The hairy honeysuckle (L. hirsuta, Eaton) has large, coarse, hairy leaves, and bright, orange-colored corollas, and is found from Maine to Wisconsin and ..."

4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The hairy honeysuckle (L. hirsuta, Eaton) has large, coarse, hairy leaves, and bright, orange-colored corollas, and is found from Maine to Wisconsin and ..."

5. Ecology & Management of the Commerically Harvested American Matsutake Mushroom by David Hosford, David Pilz, Randy Molina, Michael Amaranthus (1997)
"Douglas-fir, canyon live oak/poison oak, red bud/hairy honeysuckle—Canopy layers range from predominately canyon live oak to a mix of live oak and Douglas- ..."

6. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"... hairy honeysuckle Lonicera hirsuta Honeysuckle Family Fruit. — The red berries grow in short terminal spikes. The calyx teeth are at the summit arid the ..."

7. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany for the Home and School by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"The flowers are small and either yellowish and purple or crimson. hairy honeysuckle. —The leaves are of a dull green color, hairy, ..."

8. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"hairy honeysuckle. —The leaves are of a dull green color, hairy, ami are not glaucous. Flowers are clammy and are orange color. JAPAN HONEYSUCKLE. ..."

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