Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: A plant, Lonicera Xylosteum.
- noun A name given to a species of Halleria.
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Examples
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The fly-honeysuckle is in full leaf, as well as in flower; it is one of our earliest shrubs.
Rural Hours 1887
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There are also three varieties of the fly-honeysuckle, regular northern plants, one bearing red, another purple, another blue berries; the first is very common here, found in every wood; there is said to be a plant almost identical with this in Tartary.
Rural Hours 1887
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An open wood, chiefly of dwarf oak, and shrubs such as the wayfaring tree, the guelder-rose, and the fly-honeysuckle, now stretches along the opposite side of the gorge.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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