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slovo definícia honeysuckle (encz) honeysuckle,zimolez n: Zdeněk Brož Honeysuckle (gcide) Honeysuckle \Hon"ey*suc`kle\, n. [Cf. AS. hunis[=u]ge privet. See Honey, and Suck.] (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. [1913 Webster] Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, Lonicera Caprifolium, and {Lonicera Japonica}, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; Lonicera Periclymenum, the fragrant woodbine of England; Lonicera grata, the American woodbine, and Lonicera sempervirens, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is {Lonicera Xylosteum}; the American, Lonicera ciliata. The American Pinxter flower (Azalea nudiflora) is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name Australian honeysuckle is applied to one or more trees of the genus Banksia. See French honeysuckle, under French. [1913 Webster] honeysuckle (wn) honeysuckle n 1: shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera 2: shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers [syn: honeysuckle, {Australian honeysuckle}, coast banksia, Banksia integrifolia] 3: columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers [syn: meeting house, honeysuckle, {Aquilegia canadensis}]

podobné slovo definícia coral honeysuckle (encz) coral honeysuckle, n: fly honeysuckle (encz) fly honeysuckle, n: french honeysuckle (encz) French honeysuckle, hairy honeysuckle (encz) hairy honeysuckle, n: honeysuckle (encz) honeysuckle,zimolez n: Zdeněk Brož honeysuckle family (encz) honeysuckle family, n: italian honeysuckle (encz) Italian honeysuckle, jamaica honeysuckle (encz) Jamaica honeysuckle, japanese honeysuckle (encz) Japanese honeysuckle, swamp fly honeysuckle (encz) swamp fly honeysuckle, n: swamp honeysuckle (encz) swamp honeysuckle, n: tartarian honeysuckle (encz) Tartarian honeysuckle, trumpet honeysuckle (encz) trumpet honeysuckle, n: white honeysuckle (encz) white honeysuckle, n: yellow honeysuckle (encz) yellow honeysuckle, n: Australian honeysuckle (gcide) Honeysuckle \Hon"ey*suc`kle\, n. [Cf. AS. hunis[=u]ge privet. See Honey, and Suck.] (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. [1913 Webster] Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, Lonicera Caprifolium, and {Lonicera Japonica}, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; Lonicera Periclymenum, the fragrant woodbine of England; Lonicera grata, the American woodbine, and Lonicera sempervirens, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is {Lonicera Xylosteum}; the American, Lonicera ciliata. The American Pinxter flower (Azalea nudiflora) is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name Australian honeysuckle is applied to one or more trees of the genus Banksia. See French honeysuckle, under French. [1913 Webster] Fly honeysuckle (gcide) Fly \Fly\, n.; pl. Flies (fl[imac]z). [OE. flie, flege, AS. fl[=y]ge, fle['o]ge, fr. fle['o]gan to fly; akin to D. vlieg, OHG. flioga, G. fliege, Icel. & Sw. fluga, Dan. flue. [root] 84. See Fly, v. i.] 1. (Zool.) (a) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly. (b) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append. [1913 Webster] 2. A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing. "The fur-wrought fly." --Gay. [1913 Webster] 3. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 4. A parasite. [Obs.] --Massinger. [1913 Webster] 5. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] 6. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end. [1913 Webster] 7. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows. [1913 Webster] 8. (Naut.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. --Totten. [1913 Webster] 9. (Mech.) (a) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock. (b) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below). [1913 Webster] 10. (Knitting Machine) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch. --Knight. [1913 Webster] 11. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn. [1913 Webster] 12. (Weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk. --Knight. [1913 Webster] 13. (a) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press. (b) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work. [1913 Webster] 14. The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place. [1913 Webster] 15. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater. [1913 Webster] 16. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons. [1913 Webster] 17. (Baseball) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly. Also called fly ball. "a fly deep into right field" [1913 Webster +PJC] 18. (Cotton Manuf.) Waste cotton. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Black fly, Cheese fly, Dragon fly, etc. See under Black, Cheese, etc. -- Fly agaric (Bot.), a mushroom (Agaricus muscarius), having a narcotic juice which, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- Fly block (Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- Fly board (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- Fly book, a case in the form of a book for anglers' flies. --Kingsley.Fly cap, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- Fly drill, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. --Knight.Fly fishing, the act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial flies; fishing using a fly[2] as bait. --Walton. -- -- Fly fisherman, one who fishes using natural or artificial flies[2] as bait, especially one who fishes exclusively in that manner. -- Fly flap, an implement for killing flies. -- Fly governor, a governor for regulating the speed of an engine, etc., by the resistance of vanes revolving in the air. -- Fly honeysuckle (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus (Lonicera), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as L. ciliata and {L. Xylosteum}. -- Fly hook, a fishhook supplied with an artificial fly. -- Fly leaf, an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. -- Fly maggot, a maggot bred from the egg of a fly. --Ray. Fly net, a screen to exclude insects. Fly nut (Mach.), a nut with wings; a thumb nut; a finger nut. Fly orchis (Bot.), a plant (Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies. Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly. Fly rail, a bracket which turns out to support the hinged leaf of a table. Fly rod, a light fishing rod used in angling with a fly. Fly sheet, a small loose advertising sheet; a handbill. Fly snapper (Zool.), an American bird ({Phainopepla nitens}), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. Fly wheel (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See Fly, n., 9. On the fly (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground.. [1913 Webster] French honeysuckle (gcide) French \French\ (fr[e^]nch), prop. a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[,c]ois, F. fran[,c]ais. See Frank, a., and cf. Frankish.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. [1913 Webster] French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk. French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear. French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle. French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse. French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. French pie [French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zool.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also wood pie. French polish. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. French red rouge. French rice, amelcorn. French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. --Ure. French window. See under Window. [1913 Webster] garland honeysuckle (gcide) French \French\ (fr[e^]nch), prop. a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[,c]ois, F. fran[,c]ais. See Frank, a., and cf. Frankish.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. [1913 Webster] French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk. French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear. French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle. French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse. French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. French pie [French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zool.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also wood pie. French polish. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. French red rouge. French rice, amelcorn. French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. --Ure. French window. See under Window. [1913 Webster] Honeysuckled (gcide) Honeysuckled \Hon"ey*suc`kled\, a. Covered with honeysuckles. [1913 Webster] Swamp honeysuckle (gcide) Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. [1913 Webster] Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). [1913 Webster] Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing (b) . Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. Swamp hen. (Zool.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen. (c) The European purple gallinule. Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea viscosa} syn. Rhododendron viscosa or {Rhododendron viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle. Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook. Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie. Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous. Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple. Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus bicolor}), swamp post oak (Quercus lyrata). Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite. Swamp partridge (Zool.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges. Swamp robin (Zool.), the chewink. Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}. Swamp sparrow (Zool.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy. [1913 Webster] the honeysuckle ornament (gcide) Palmette \Pal*mette"\, n. [F., dim. of palme a palm.] A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament. [1913 Webster] Trumpet honeysuckle (gcide) Trumpet \Trump"et\, n. [F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone. [1913 Webster] The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] 3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. --Shak. [1913 Webster] That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. [1913 Webster] Ear trumpet. See under Ear. Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. Trumpet animalcule (Zool.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] Trumpet conch (Zool.), a trumpet shell, or triton. Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant ({Tecoma radicans}) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. Trumpet fish. (Zool.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. Trumpet fly (Zool.), a botfly. Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant ({Lonicera sempervirens}) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to "its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." --Grove. Trumpet shell (Zool.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood. [1913 Webster] white swamp honeysuckle (gcide) Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. [1913 Webster] Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). [1913 Webster] Swamp blackbird. (Zool.) See Redwing (b) . Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. Swamp deer (Zool.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. Swamp hen. (Zool.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen. (c) The European purple gallinule. Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea viscosa} syn. Rhododendron viscosa or {Rhododendron viscosum}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle. Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook. Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie. Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous. Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple. Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak ({Quercus bicolor}), swamp post oak (Quercus lyrata). Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite. Swamp partridge (Zool.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges. Swamp robin (Zool.), the chewink. Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}. Swamp sparrow (Zool.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or Melospiza palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy. [1913 Webster] american fly honeysuckle (wn) American fly honeysuckle n 1: erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers [syn: American fly honeysuckle, {fly honeysuckle}, Lonicera canadensis] australian honeysuckle (wn) Australian honeysuckle n 1: shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers [syn: honeysuckle, {Australian honeysuckle}, coast banksia, Banksia integrifolia] bush honeysuckle (wn) bush honeysuckle n 1: a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia [syn: bush honeysuckle, Tartarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica] 2: bush honeysuckle of southeastern United States having large crowded clusters of sulfur-yellow flowers [syn: {bush honeysuckle}, Diervilla sessilifolia] 3: spreading bush of northeastern United States having small clusters of fragrant green and yellow flowers [syn: {bush honeysuckle}, Diervilla lonicera] coral honeysuckle (wn) coral honeysuckle n 1: evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers [syn: trumpet honeysuckle, {coral honeysuckle}, trumpet flower, trumpet vine, {Lonicera sempervirens}] european fly honeysuckle (wn) European fly honeysuckle n 1: cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit [syn: European fly honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, Lonicera xylosteum] european honeysuckle (wn) European honeysuckle n 1: cultivated Eurasian shrub with twin yellowish-white flowers and scarlet fruit [syn: European fly honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, Lonicera xylosteum] fly honeysuckle (wn) fly honeysuckle n 1: erect deciduous North American shrub with yellow-white flowers [syn: American fly honeysuckle, {fly honeysuckle}, Lonicera canadensis] french honeysuckle (wn) French honeysuckle n 1: European herb with small fragrant crimson or white spurred flowers [syn: red valerian, French honeysuckle, Centranthus ruber] 2: perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop [syn: French honeysuckle, sulla, {Hedysarum coronarium}] hairy honeysuckle (wn) hairy honeysuckle n 1: twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America [syn: {hairy honeysuckle}, Lonicera hirsuta]