zinnia

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English

Zinnia violacea
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Etymology

1767, after Johann Gottfried Zinn, German botanist (d. 1759) +‎ -ia.

Noun

zinnia (plural zinnias)

  1. 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.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zi.nja/
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Noun

zinnia m (plural zinnias)

  1. zinnia

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Italian

Noun

zinnia f (plural zinnie)

  1. zinnia

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Spanish

Noun

zinnia f (plural zinnias)

  1. zinnia

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