ZOYSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zoysia mean? 

• ZOYSIA (noun)
  The noun ZOYSIA has 1 sense:

1. any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia

  Familiarity information: ZOYSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOYSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("zoysia" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoysia"):

Japanese carpet grass; Manila grass; Zoysia matrella (lawn grass common in the Philippines; grown also in United States)

Japanese lawn grass; Korean lawn grass; Zoysia japonica (lawn grass common in China and Japan; grown also in United States)

Korean velvet grass; mascarene grass; Zoysia tenuifolia (Asiatic creeping perennial grass; introduced in southern United States as a drought-resistant lawn grass)

Holonyms ("zoysia" is a member of...):

genus Zoisia; genus Zoysia; Zoisia (lawn grasses native to southeastern Asia and New Zealand; grown especially in warm regions)