What does honeysuckle mean?
Word: Honeysuckle
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Honeysuckle means a climbing garden plant with sweet-smelling yellow, pink or white flowers.
How do you spell honeysuckle?
Syllables: hon - ey - suck - le
Tricky part: In speech the end sounds like kel, but honeysuckel is wrong: the last two letters are the other way round.
Watch out for: honeysuckel, honeysukle, honeysuckal
Memory tip: A passing breeze tickles the flowers, and the word ends just as tickle does.
Honeysuckle in a sentence
Example 1: A honeysuckle climbs over our neighbour's gate.
Example 2: The scent of honeysuckle drifts through the window on warm evenings.
Example 3: Grandmother planted honeysuckle along the garden path.
Fun Fact
Flowers of Japanese honeysuckle open white and turn yellow as they age, so one stem can show both colours.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word:
1. honeysuckle 2. hibiskus 3. rhododendran 4. chrysanthamum
a) a large evergreen bush with big bright flowers
b) a flower with many rounded, curling petals
c) a plant with wide trumpet-shaped flowers
d) a fragrant vine often grown over garden walls
Show answer
d) a fragrant vine often grown over garden walls. Honeysuckle stands correct; chrysanthemum, rhododendron and hibiscus are all misspelt.
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) blackbery
b) snowdropp
c) honeysuckle
d) sunflowar
Show answer
c) honeysuckle. Blackberry needs two r's, sunflower ends in er and snowdrop has one p, so honeysuckle is the one.
Mingle-Mangle
Unscramble the jumbled word in the sentence and choose it:
The gardener trained the ehseulynkco along the veranda rail so that the whole house smelt sweet after sunset.
a) houseplant
b) honeysuckle
c) honeycomb
d) honeymoon
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b) honeysuckle. Only honeysuckle holds the k and the l along with the c and the s.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
h_n_ysuckle
a) u,e
b) o,e
c) o,i
d) u,i
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b) o,e. The two gaps take o and then e.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does a honeysuckle need most in a garden?
a) a dark shed to rest in
b) a bed of dry sand to spread over
c) a deep pond to float on
d) a fence or trellis to twine around
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d) a fence or trellis to twine around
2. Which visitors is honeysuckle especially likely to attract?
a) frogs and toads
b) cats and dogs
c) moths and bees
d) crows and kites
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c) moths and bees
