American woodbine

[ uh-mer-i-kuhn wood-bahyn ]

noun

1. a type of semi-evergreen honeysuckle ( Lonicera americana ) often cultivated for its prolific tubular flowers and clovelike fragrance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of American woodbine¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

The heat had deepened the flush upon her cheeks, and brought a soft languor into her eyes, and as she stood under an arch of the American woodbine, that mantled the supports of the piazza roof, she might easily have fulfilled an artist's dream of summer.

From Project Gutenberg

How does it happen that this vine, a native of Europe, is now so common in the Eastern United States as to be called the American woodbine?

From Project Gutenberg