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LONICERA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Woodbine

Synonyms:

genus Lonicera; Lonicera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Lonicera" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Lonicera"):

honeysuckle (shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera)

Lonicera albiflora; white honeysuckle (bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States)

American fly honeysuckle; fly honeysuckle; Lonicera canadensis (erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers)

Italian honeysuckle; Italian woodbine; Lonicera caprifolium (deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls)

Lonicera dioica; yellow honeysuckle (twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged yellow-green flowers; northeastern America)

Lonicera flava; yellow honeysuckle (climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States)

hairy honeysuckle; Lonicera hirsuta (twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America)

Lonicera involucrata; twinberry (shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America)

Japanese honeysuckle; Lonicera japonica (an Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age; has become a weed in some areas)

Hall's honeysuckle; Lonicera japonica halliana (a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States)

Lonicera periclymenum; woodbine (European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers)

coral honeysuckle; Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet flower; trumpet honeysuckle; trumpet vine (evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers)

bush honeysuckle; Lonicera tatarica; Tartarian honeysuckle (a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia)

European fly honeysuckle; European honeysuckle; Lonicera xylosteum (cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit)

Holonyms ("Lonicera" is a member of...):

Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)

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