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lonicera

lonicera noun: any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.

Noun

lonicera (plural loniceras)

  1. Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
    • Just as important, the things I had never gotten around to doing — cleaning up the brush pile, pruning the overgrown forsythia, pulling the wild grape out of the Gold Flame lonicera — were enhancing that habitat.2007 January 4, Anne Raver, “A Crop of Azure, Scarlet and Gold”, in New York Times

Forms of lonicera

pluralloniceras

Origin of lonicera

From the genus name.

Questions about lonicera

What does lonicera mean?
Lonicera means any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
What part of speech is lonicera?
Lonicera is a noun.
What is the plural of lonicera?
The plural of lonicera is loniceras.

Words near lonicera in the dictionary

  1. longyis
  2. Longzhou
  3. Longzihu
  4. longæ
  5. longævity
  6. lonicera
  7. loniceras
  8. lonicerin
  9. loniceroside
  10. lonicerosides
  11. lonidamine

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