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Honeyflower   Listen
noun
honey flower, honeyflower  n.  
1.
(Bot.) An erect bushy shrub (Lambertia formosa) of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar.
Synonyms: mountain devil, Lambertia formosa.
2.
(Bot.) The Australian shrub (Protea mellifera) whose flowers yield honey copiously.
Synonyms: Protea mellifera.
3.
(Bot.), An evergreen shrub of the genus Melianthus, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. The flowers yield much honey.





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"Honeyflower" Quotes from Famous Books



... start upon their journey when there came a knocking at the door. On its being opened the bald and toothless Abednego stumbled in with the word that immediately after Angele and her father came aboard the Honeyflower some fifty halberdiers suddenly appeared upon the Couperon. They had at once set sail, and got away even before the sailors had reached the shore. As they had rounded the point, where they were hid from view, Abednego dropped overboard and swam ashore on the rising tide, making his way to ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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