GENUS HOYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hoya mean? 

• GENUS HOYA (noun)
  The noun GENUS HOYA has 1 sense:

1. large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia

  Familiarity information: GENUS HOYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HOYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Hoya" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hoya"):

hoya (any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Hoya" is a member of...):

Asclepiadaceae; family Asclepiadaceae; milkweed family (widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice)