| 单词 | hoya | 
| 释义 | hoyan. Botany.   A large genus of climbing herbaceous plants (N.O.  Asclepiadaceæ), bearing dense umbels of fleshy or waxen flowers, pink, white, or yellow; commonly known as honey-plants, wax-plants, or wax-flowers. They are natives of southern Asia, the Malay archipelago, and Australia, and are cultivated in greenhouses for their beauty. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental vine > 			[noun]		 > haya wax-plant1801 wax flower1848 hoya1851 wax-creeper1890 1816    J. Maher in  Trans. Hort. Soc. London 		(1817)	 2 197 		(heading)	  				On a remarkable property of the Hoya Carnosa.]			 1851    Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 972  				Hoya, or wax flower. 1881    R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 111  				Native jessamine and waxen hoya shed their fragrance in the air. 1894    R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. xiv. 255  				I have almost spoiled that truss of Hoya. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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