white honeysuckle

1. 1.

   bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States

   SynonymsLonicera albiflora

   Broaderhoneysuckle

   Part ofLonicera
2. 2.

   shrub growing in swamps throughout the eastern United States and having small white to pinkish flowers resembling honeysuckle

   Synonymsswamp azaleaswamp honeysuckleRhododendron viscosum

   Broaderrhododendron

Questions about white honeysuckle

What does white honeysuckle mean?

white honeysuckle means "bushy honeysuckle with twining branches and white or yellow-white flowers; southern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for white honeysuckle?

Close synonyms include Lonicera albiflora, swamp azalea, swamp honeysuckle, Rhododendron viscosum. 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 white honeysuckle a common word?

white honeysuckle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.