The scientific or Latin name for honeysuckle and the genus of flowering plants in the caprifoliaceae family.
Medieval Latin, literally 'goat leaf' from Latin capra 'goat' and folium 'leaf'; used as the genus name in modern botanical taxonomy.
Caprifolium became the scientific name that launched an entire botanical family—one mysterious medieval plant name spawned centuries of taxonomic classification!
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