Definition of Genus Hoya

1. Noun. Large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia.

Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Asclepiadaceae, Family Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed Family
Member holonyms: Hoya

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hoya

genus Holarrhena
genus Holbrookia
genus Holcus
genus Holocentrus
genus Holothuria
genus Homarus
genus Homo
genus Homogyne
genus Homona
genus Hordeum
genus Horneophyton
genus Hosta
genus Hottonia
genus Houttuynia
genus Hovea
genus Hoya (current term)
genus Hudsonia
genus Hugueninia
genus Hulsea
genus Humulus
genus Hunnemania
genus Hyacinthoides
genus Hyacinthus
genus Hyaena
genus Hyalophora
genus Hybanthus
genus Hydnocarpus
genus Hydnum
genus Hydra

Literary usage of Genus Hoya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"REMARKS ON THE genus Hoya, AND PARTICULARLY UPON HOYA CARNOSA. WE beg to refer the reader to page 26 of the second volume : therein we have noticed many of ..."

2. A Naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, John I. Northrop (1910)
"... latter order he named for Thomas Hoy, an " intelligent and successful cultivator," for some time gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, the genus Hoya, ..."

3. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"A stove-house evergreen climber with white flowers, tipped witli buff. This is now generally regarded as a section of the genus Hoya. ..."

4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"E. genus Hoya HOYA (named in honour of T. Hoy, FLS, a gardener, who died 1821). A genus of about fifty species of stove or greenhouse shrubs with opposite, ..."

5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1898)
"BY JAMES BRITTEN, FLS ' THE following notes were made during a revision of the genus Hoya as represented in the National Herbarium, and may be worth placing ..."

6. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1864)
"The genus Hoya is named in honour of Mr. Hoy, once gardener at Sion House. It belongs to the natural order of ..."

7. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1851)
"The genus Hoya now consists of near fifty described species, most of them inhabit moist woods in India and other countries. They have a season of rest ..."

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