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ZOYSIA

• 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.

• ZOYSIA (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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Useful links:
Meaning of Japanese carpet grass
Definition of Zoysia matrella
Definition of Zoysia japonica
Definition of Korean velvet grass
Definition of genus Zoysia

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