| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | zoy·sia |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  zoi sh , -zh, -s -, -z- |
| NOUN: | Any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia, native to southeast Asia and New Zealand and widely cultivated for lawns. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin Zoysia, genus name, after Karl von Zois zu Laubach (1756–1800?), Austrian botanist.
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