honeyflower

1. 1.

   erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar

   Synonymshoney-flowermountain devilLambertia formosa

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLambertia
2. 2.

   Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously

   Synonymshoney-flowerProtea mellifera

   Broaderprotea

   Part ofgenus Protea

Other forms of honeyflower

plural

honeyflowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about honeyflower

What does honeyflower mean?

honeyflower means "erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in honeyflower?

honeyflower has 4 syllables: ho-ney-flo-wer. The stress falls on "ney".

What is another word for honeyflower?

Close synonyms include honey-flower, mountain devil, Lambertia formosa, honey-flower, Protea mellifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is honeyflower a common word?

honeyflower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.