GENUS HOYA

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Meaning:

Large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia

Classified under:

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)

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