zinnia
See also: Zinnia
English
editEtymology
edit1767, after Johann Gottfried Zinn, German botanist (d. 1759) + -ia.
Noun
editzinnia (plural zinnias)
- Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid.
- 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 134:
- […] the Consul at this moment greeted Mr. Quincey's cat, momentarily forgetting its owner again as the grey, meditative animal, with a tail so long it trailed on the ground, came stalking through the zinnias: […]
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:
- Santa sighed at the unfairness of it all and slammed the picture down on the mantelpiece among the bowl of wax fruit and the bouquet of paper zinnias and the statue of the Virgin Mary and the figurine of the Infant of Prague.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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French
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editzinnia m (plural zinnias)
Further reading
edit- “zinnia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editNoun
editzinnia f (plural zinnie)
Anagrams
editSpanish
editNoun
editzinnia f (plural zinnias)
Further reading
edit- “zinnia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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