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zinnia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun zinnia has 1 sense
- zinnia(n = noun.plant) old maid, old maid flower - any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads; Array is a kind of flower
is a member of genus zinnia
has particulars: white zinnia, zinnia acerosa, little golden zinnia, zinnia grandiflora
CIDE DICTIONARY
zinnia, n. [NL. So called after Professor Zinn, of Göttingen.].
Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia , Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
zinnia, n. a composite plant of the genus Zinnia, with showy rayed flowers of deep red and other colours.
Etymology
J. G. Zinn, Ger. physician and botanist d. 1759
ROGET THESAURUS
zinnia
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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