Definition of Lonicera xylosteum

1. Noun. Cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit.

Exact synonyms: European Fly Honeysuckle, European Honeysuckle
Group relationships: Genus Lonicera, Lonicera
Generic synonyms: Honeysuckle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lonicera Xylosteum

Longyearbyen
Lonicera
Lonicera albiflora
Lonicera canadensis
Lonicera caprifolium
Lonicera dioica
Lonicera flava
Lonicera hirsuta
Lonicera involucrata
Lonicera japonica
Lonicera japonica halliana
Lonicera morrowii
Lonicera periclymenum
Lonicera sempervirens
Lonicera tatarica
Lonicera xylosteum
Loniten
Lonnie
Lontara
Looney
Looney Tunes
Loos
Looser's lines
Looser's zones
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio
Lope de Vega
Lophiidae
Lophius
Lophius Americanus
Lophodytes

Literary usage of Lonicera xylosteum

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"lonicera xylosteum L. Sp. PI. 174. 1753. A shrub, 3°-7° high, the foliage densely ap- pressed-pubescent when young. Leaves ovate, oval, or obovate, entire, ..."

2. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"Erect shrub, not twining. Leaves dark green above, soft and velvety, especially on the paler grey-green under- Fig. 56. Fly Honeysuckle, lonicera xylosteum, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"lonicera xylosteum. lonicera xylosteum. Fly Woodbine. NO Caprifoliaceae. Tritura- tion or tincture of berries. Clinical.—Coma vigil. Convulsions. ..."

4. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala by Geologiska institutionen, Mineralogisk-geologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet (1908)
"Here and there on the moistened mountain walls there grows a multitude of plants such as Lactuca muralis. Viburnum of nl us, lonicera xylosteum. ..."

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