wild honeysuckle

noun

1. pinxter flower.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wild honeysuckle¹

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65

Example Sentences

I walked the mile from Leister Farm, where Meade headquartered the union army, through a wooded tangle of wild honeysuckle on Culp’s Hill down to Spangler’s Spring, where the ancestor of an Amity family at the center of my reporting, the Haneys, had fought on the side of the south.

From The Guardian

Finding one, I’d stroll its winding streets, and I’d admire the houses set back in woods, with moths orbiting porch lights, the smell of wild honeysuckle, and the tic–tic–tic of midnight sprinklers.

From The New Yorker

He foraged for ingredients for his own concoctions: wild honeysuckle from the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn; honey from his neighbor’s backyard hives.

From New York Times

It wants to hold the trees—“Persimmons ... Hornbeam ... Gum-trees, both sweet and sour”—and the blossoms, especially the most wild—“wild honeysuckle, wild roses ... wild geranium”—and even the “friendly weeds” of its author’s daily strolls: “snakeroot ... dandelions ... bloodroot.”

From Slate

Among all the beautiful things, there was one to rivet the eye and attention; a dark green fir tree, perhaps thirty feet high, around whose trunk and branches a wild honeysuckle vine had twined itself from the ground to the topmost twig.

From Project Gutenberg