单词 | honeysuck |
释义 | honeysuckn. 1. Any of several plants having flowers with a sweet smell or abundant nectar; esp. honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, and clovers (genus Trifolium). Cf. honeysuckle n. and adj. Now historical and regional (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine honeysuckOE goat leafa1275 woodbinea1300 honeysucklea1400 suckle-bloom14.. bindc1440 goat's leaf1526 caprifoil1578 suckling1653 trumpet honeysuckle1731 white honeysuckle1731 dwarf honeysuckle1812 suckle1816 twinflower1836 fly-honeysuckle1861 linnaea1862 lonicera1863 swamp honeysuckle1958 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > of unidentified or unspecified type honeysuckOE honeysucklea1300 floscampya1398 poppya1400 siphany1509 flour-dammesa1522 ageratum1567 rose of Sharon1585 belamour1595 sea violet1601 Bacchus-bole1725 eel-pout1736 torch-flower1849 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > clover cloverc1000 honeysucklea1300 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. sucklingc1440 white honeysuckle1657 suckle1709 serradilla1846 honeysuck1854 ladino clover1924 OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 298 Lugustrum, hunisucę. ?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 184 Caprifolium, homsouke [perh. read honisouke]. ?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 611/30 Serpillum, peletur vel honysouke. 1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 149v It hedged was wyth Honysuckes, Or periclimenum. 1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Hedges Privet is also sometimes used for moderate Hedges. And for low Hedges the Rose—Sweet-briar—Honey-suck [etc.]. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 335 Honey-sucks, the flowers of the red clover; from which children are fond of sucking the saccharine juice. 1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Honey-suck. (1) Flowers of Trifolium pratense... (2) Lonicera Periclymenum. 1895 A. A. Leith Plant of Lemon Verbena 38 The hawthorn wasn't arl off th' hedges, an' yet the honey-zooks and dag rhoses was out. 1902 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers 7th ser. 84 Beloved of bees we find the meadow clover, called by divers old authors the honeysuck. 1920 Windsor Mag. 52 348/1 With honeysuck and clover Is she made fair. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Locustidae > member of (locust) grasshopOE langustec1200 skippera1325 locustc1350 honeysucklea1387 honeysucka1398 lungoutec1485 grasshopper1526 acrida1557 ophiomach1609 locustid1878 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lii. 755 Other men of Ethiopia lyuen by oneliche honysokes [L. locustis] ydryed in smoke and in þe sonne. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Matt. iii. 4 His mete was honysoukis, and hony of the wode. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 593/l. 24 Locusta, a honysouke. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > nectar mildeweOE honeydew1533 nectar1555 honeysuckle1607 honeysuck1608 nectar flood1610 nectar fountain1611 honey-rore1632 honey1733 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 75 Then, they [sc. bees] flye not farre from their owne homes, but sustaine themselues with their owne hony-suck alreadie prouided. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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