Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lonicera

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English

Syllables: lonicera
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From the genus name.

Inflected Forms

loniceras (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

lonicerin

Questions

What does lonicera mean?: Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
Where does lonicera come from?: From the genus name.

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