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OLD MAID FLOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does old maid flower mean?
• OLD MAID FLOWER (noun)
The noun OLD MAID FLOWER has 1 sense:
1. any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
Familiarity information: OLD MAID FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
old maid; old maid flower; zinnia
Hypernyms ("old maid flower" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old maid flower"):
white zinnia; Zinnia acerosa (subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico)
little golden zinnia; Zinnia grandiflora (subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas)
Holonyms ("old maid flower" is a member of...):
genus Zinnia (genus of annual or perennial plants of tropical America having solitary heads of brightly colored flowers)
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