[hoi-uh] 
| any shrubby climbing plant of the genus Hoya, of the milkweed family, esp. the wax plant, H. carnosa, a pot plant with waxy white flowers. |
| hoy·a (hoi'ə) n. Any of several evergreen climbing vines or shrubs of the genus Hoya, with a home range from India and southern China to Australia and having opposite, simple leaves and axillary, umbellate flower clusters. Also called porcelain flower, wax vine. [New Latin Hoya, genus name, after Thomas Hoy (1750?-1822), British gardener.] |
| porcelain flower n. See hoya. |
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