Definitions for Hoya

Hoya hoy·a

Spelling: [hoi-uh]
IPA: /ˈhɔɪ ə/

Hoya is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Hoya (ahoy).

Definitions for Hoya

noun

  1. any shrubby climbing plant of the genus Hoya, of the milkweed family, especially the wax plant, H. carnosa, a pot plant with waxy white flowers.

Origin of Hoya

New Latin, named after Thomas Hoy (circa 1750-1822), English gardener; see -a2

Examples for Hoya

I have almost spoiled that truss of hoya, and this Schubertia won't stand up.

Battle of hoya in Westphalia, between the allies and French.

Of the cultivated forms, the wax-plant (hoya), and Physianthus are the commonest.

The islands abound in plants of that beautiful natural order Apocyne; we found several most elegant species of hoya amongst them.

I remember spending two hours in trying to make out what the following words could mean: Hoy—alla—hoya;—hoya, hoya—hoy—waudihoya.

“We kissed at the party,” he admitted to his school paper, The hoya.

The next day, about noon, we reached hoya, which was as Far as my present boat and crew were going to take me.

There are several varieties of hoya, but one only is generally cultivated.

hoya Carnosa has thick waxy leaves, and bears umbels of beautiful flesh-colored flowers which are very wax-like in appearance.

At a little distance, in the place known as hoya de Corralejo, one may still see the Togaror, or tribal meeting place.

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