hoya carnosa

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   succulent climber of southern Asia with umbels of pink and white star-shaped flowers

   Synonymswax plant

   Broaderhoya

Questions about hoya carnosa

What does hoya carnosa mean?

hoya carnosa means "succulent climber of southern Asia with umbels of pink and white star-shaped flowers".

What is another word for hoya carnosa?

Close synonyms include wax plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoya carnosa a common word?

hoya carnosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.