white honeysucklen.
/ˌwʌɪt ˈhʌnɪsʌkl/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈhəniˌsək(ə)l/ΚΠ
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects xv. 94 In May..Hawthorn, Elder, white Honeysuckle [etc.].
1761 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 6) 104 The grass..runs most to white honeysuckle or clover.
1870 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 244/1 Seeds, for 3 or 4 years' ley, consisting of... 3 lbs. White honeysuckle.
2. Any of various white-flowered species or varieties of honeysuckle; (in later use) spec. Lonicera albiflora of southwestern North America.
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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
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Caprifolium The French or Early White Honeysuckle.
1815 Encycl. Londinensis XIII. 626/1 The early white honeysuckle is one [variety of Italian honeysuckle].
1902 Country Life Amer. July 109/2 The night-flying moths come to the wooing of the twining white honeysuckle, tobacco plant,..and a host of other white or yellow charmers.
1948 Ecol. Monogr. 18 369/2 In April additional species were flowering, including white honeysuckle (Lonicera albiflora).
2007 G. O. Miller Landscaping with Native Plants Southwest 106 White honeysuckle grows at lower elevations than the red-flowering vine, Arizona honeysuckle.
3. U.S. Swamp azalea, Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern United States, which has white or pinkish-white flowers. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > azaleas or rhododendrons
mountain rose1640
rhododendron1657
Alpine rose1728
winterbloom1752
azalea1753
mountain rosebay1759
rosebay1760
rhodora1770
mountain laurel1785
swamp azalea1796
big laurel1810
rose tree1818
white honeysuckle1818
meadow pink1827
Pinkster1833
mayflower1838
alpenrose1839
swamp pink1840
rhodie1851
swamp honeysuckle1856
ponticum1875
tree azalea1884
rhodo1886
Kurume azalea1920
1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 166 Azalea... viscosa..white honeysuckle.
1835 Zodiac July 7/2 Since the last enumeration of native plants, the following have been observed in bloom. Swamp rose..white honeysuckle.
1903 H. L. Keeler Our Northern Shrubs 356 It is late in August before the last blossom has faded on the White Honeysuckle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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