trumpet honeysuckle

noun

: a North American honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) with whorls of large coral-red or orange flowers having a narrow trumpet-shaped corolla

Examples of trumpet honeysuckle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Excellent choices include: climbing roses bougainvilleas trumpet honeysuckles climbing hydrangeas Carolina jessamine mandevillas crossvines American wisterias star jasmines (some plants may need to be tied to the posts or trellises to scale the structure). —Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025

Examples include wisteria, trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), and Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens). —Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024

Plants like trumpet honeysuckle, bee balm, and hummingbird sage provide much more nectar than hybrids and exotics. —Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Mar. 2024

The bright red tubular flowers of trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) signal an open buffet to our hummingbird friends. —Terri Robertson, Country Living, 24 June 2022

For a similar looking and smelling vine, go with trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens). —Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2021

Later in the spring and into summer, orange trumpet honeysuckle hangs from the trees overhead, and wild Lily of the Valley and coral root orchids blossom underfoot. —Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1731, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for trumpet honeysuckle

• buckle
• chicle
• chuckle
• knuckle
• muckle
• suckle
• tical