Lonicera

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.

    "Just as important, the things I had never gotten around to doing — cleaning up the brush pile, pruning the overgrown forsythia, pulling the wild grape out of the Gold Flame lonicera — were enhancing that habitat."

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genus lonicera

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"Just as important, the things I had never gotten around to doing — cleaning up the brush pile, pruning the overgrown forsythia, pulling the wild grape out of the Gold Flame lonicera — were enhancing that habitat."

Etymology

From the genus name.

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