zinnia : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: zinnia	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for zinnia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zinnia n any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads Synonym(s): zinnia, old maid, old maid flower
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Zinnia \[d8]Zin"nia\, n. [NL. So called after Professor Zinn, of G[94]ttingen.] (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.