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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Salvia, zinnia, snapdragons and some others I forgot the names of make up the rest.
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