caprifoil
caprifoil noun: a plant of the family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle.
Noun
caprifoil (plural caprifoils)
- A plant of the family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle.
- Sunny, shrubby banks are fairly crowded with caprifoils, so easily known by their opposite leaves, monopeta lous more or less irregular flowers with the parts in fives, save style, and ovary blended with walls of the calyx-tube.1878, Japan Weekly Mail, page 295
- ...and if we descend to the criterion of stipular line, as is done to evidence the genuineness of some Rubiaceae, we need exclude no caprifoils except those of the genus Alseuosmia which have alternate leaves.1921, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club - Volume 48
Forms of caprifoil
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Questions about caprifoil
- What does caprifoil mean?
- Caprifoil means a plant of the family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle.
- What part of speech is caprifoil?
- Caprifoil is a noun.
- What is the plural of caprifoil?
- The plural of caprifoil is caprifoils.
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