ZINNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zinnia mean? 

• ZINNIA (noun)
  The noun ZINNIA has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

  Familiarity information: ZINNIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZINNIA (noun)

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 ("zinnia" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zinnia"):

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 ("zinnia" is a member of...):

genus Zinnia (genus of annual or perennial plants of tropical America having solitary heads of brightly colored flowers)