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erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers

1. : any of several shrubs of the genus Lonicera: as

a. : european fly honeysuckle

b. : a straggling shrub (L. canadensis) with leaf margins and petioles ciliate — called also American fly honeysuckle

c. : tartarian honeysuckle

2. : an African shrub (Halleria lucida) of the family Scrophulariaceae

either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.

[1810-20]