yellow honeysuckle

Questions about yellow honeysuckle

What does yellow honeysuckle mean?

yellow honeysuckle means "climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for yellow honeysuckle?

Close synonyms include Lonicera flava, Lonicera dioica. 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 yellow honeysuckle a common word?

yellow 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.