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Definition of Italian woodbine
1. Noun. Deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls.
Exact synonyms: Italian Honeysuckle, Lonicera Caprifolium
Group relationships: Genus Lonicera, Lonicera
Generic synonyms: Honeysuckle
Group relationships: Genus Lonicera, Lonicera
Generic synonyms: Honeysuckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Italian Woodbine
Literary usage of Italian woodbine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... L. ("AMERICAN" or ITALIAN- WOODBINE.) Leaves smooth, glaucous beneath, obovate,
the 2 or 3 upper pairs united ; flowers whorled in the uppermost axils; ..."