noun
honesty
A garden plant with translucent, coin-shaped seedpods.
Honesty grows beside the path, displaying its translucent, coin-shaped seedpods.
Etymology
The plant’s name is traditionally associated with its translucent seedpods. Their see-through quality supplied an image of openness or honesty.
More examples
- We plant honesty along the back of the flower bed.
- Dried stems of honesty look striking in a simple vase.
- Honesty blooms in spring before its distinctive seedpods develop.
Forms
honesty
Similar words
- lunaria
- Uses the botanical genus name for honesty and related species.
- money plant
- Also names other plants with rounded, coinlike leaves.