How to pronounce honeysuckle
American English pronunciation
HUN-ee-suk-ul
- IPA
- /ˈhʌniˌsʌkəl/
- Syllables
- HUN · ee · suk · ul (4 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What honeysuckle means
A climbing plant with sweet-smelling flowers
In a sentence: Bees buzzed around the honeysuckle growing up the fence.
Where it comes from: It goes back to an Old English name for the plant, huniġsūce. It is perhaps a changed form of an old word, honysoke.
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