Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia of the composite family, native to tropical America and widely cultivated for their showy, colorful flower heads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Helianthoideæ, type of the subtribe Zinnieæ.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several brightly coloured
flowering plants , of the genusZinnia , native totropical America ;old maid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It introduced Americans to the zinnia (1798), the white-fleshed potato (1811) and the tomato (1820).
Jesse Kornbluth: Could A Beautiful $5 Catalogue Save America's Oldest Seed Company? Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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It introduced Americans to the zinnia (1798), the white-fleshed potato (1811) and the tomato (1820).
Jesse Kornbluth: Could A Beautiful $5 Catalogue Save America's Oldest Seed Company? Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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Park Seed Co. sells a zinnia called Profusion Double White that is billed as heat-tolerant and resistant to powdery mildew.
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After purifying and grounding themselves with a zinnia dipped in water, members of the group cast a circle and honored the sun goddess, Amatersu, and the Potomac River.
Visions of faith 2010
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Do you think we need another zinnia over on the left?
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A bright & smiling ‘Profusion Orange’ zinnia (zinnia in both languages!) from the Bournemouth area in Dorset (UK)
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When he took up the zinnias to place them in the bouquet, he held his head to one side the way I had and squinted, then stuck one zinnia where I had wanted it and the other around in back.
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Hiram looked serious as he stepped on the garbage can pedal and deposited the zinnia roots.
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From aardvark to zinnia, all of Earth's known species to be cataloged on Web site - Northwest Florida Daily News: WASHINGTON (AP) - In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.
Archive 2007-05-06 Bill Crider 2007
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Salvia, zinnia, snapdragons and some others I forgot the names of make up the rest.
Container Gardening Avec Les Chiens Field Notes 2009
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