Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia, native to Southeast Asia and Australasia and widely cultivated for lawns.

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  • noun any of a genus (Zoysia) of creeping perennial grasses of southern Asia and New Zealand having fine wiry leaves and including some suitable for lawn grasses, especially in warm regions

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  • noun any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Zoysia, genus name, after Karl von Zois, zu Laubach (1756–1800?), Austrian botanist.]

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  • September is also the best month to fertilize both cool-season grasses and warm-season varieties like Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, and zoysia grass.

    Weekend Project: Start your fall lawn care during the Labor Day break 2009

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  • September is also the best month to fertilize both cool-season grasses and warm-season varieties like Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, and zoysia grass.

    Weekend Project: Start your fall lawn care during the Labor Day break 2009

  • I shudder to think what sort of combination of steel wool and zoysia grass is growing out of people's faces that it requires three successive passes of razor-sharp steel in order to separate them from their hair.

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  • Those early practice lies are a far cry from the perfect, though dormant, zoysia fairways at Carlton Woods, which has played host to the event the past three years.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Tune in for tonight's episode of "Les Does More With Grass," where the coach goes wild with zoysia and pumpkin spice.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • In more recent years, the zoysia fairways (which do not allow as much roll which effectually make the fairways play wider), have resulted in scores as low as ever before.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • The course features rolling zoysia grass fairways and large challenging Korea Velvet greens with beautiful views of Doi Suthep and other surrounding mountain ranges.

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  • The course features rolling zoysia grass fairways and large challenging Korea Velvet greens with beautiful views of Doi Suthep and other surrounding mountain ranges.

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