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Definition of Honey-flower

1. Noun. Erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar.

2. Noun. Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honey-flower

honester honestest honestetee honestie honesties honesting honestly honestness honesty honesty is the best policy

honewort honeworts honey honey-bag honey-do list honey-flower (current term) honey-mouthed honey-pot ant honey-pot ants honey-tongued

honey badger honey badgers honey bear honey bears honey bee honey bees honey bell honey berry honey bun honey bunny

Literary usage of Honey-flower

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

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Flor'imol [honey-flower]. A damsel of great beauty, but so timid that she feared the " smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor," and was abused by ..."

2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"THE honey-flower. Lin. Syst. ... signifying literally honey-flower ; and it alludes to a hollow projection in the ... THE LARGER honey-flower. SYNONYMES. ..."

3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Honey-Eucalypt, ;/. See Box- tree, Yellow. honey-flower, ;/. ... 37: "'honey-flower' or 'honeysuckle,' a plant as well known to small boys about Sydney as ..."

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