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coral honeysuckle

American  

Etymology

Origin of coral honeysuckle

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

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We have geraniums and fuchsias, too, and the coral honeysuckle.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

The chiselled stone has the hue of ages, and is profusely overhung and overspread with the ivy, the coral honeysuckle, the eglantine, and the clematis.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Then he stooped beside a column and carefully examined a newly planted coral honeysuckle before he went into the wide hall, where his wife was seated at her work-table.

From The Battle Ground by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Their hands were full of branches of the coral honeysuckle, in bloom.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard