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honeywort noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈhʌn.i.wɜːt/ us /ˈhʌn.i.wɔːrt/ any of several different wild and garden plants with tube-shaped purple or yellow flowers : Honeywort, with its purple leaves and flowers, is quite a trendy plant at the moment. Honeywort's unique feature is that the bracts around the flowers gradually flush deep blue. The oyster plant's fashionable cousin is the purple honeywort. A bed of the Brussel sprout "Red Rubine" was mixed thickly with the beautiful honeywort, Cerinthe major "Purpurascens". Honeyworts are originally from the Mediterranean region. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Flowers & flowering plants aconite adam-and-eve aeonium African daisy agapanthus edelweiss eglantine elderflower elephant ear erythronium loosestrife lords-and-ladies lotus love-in-a-mist lupin sedum sego lily self-heal senecio sensitive plant |