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Popular garden annual
Answer for the clue "Popular garden annual ", 6 letters:
zinnia
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Word definitions for zinnia in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of herbs of the aster family, 1767, from Modern Latin (Linnæus, 1763), named for German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1729-1759) + abstract noun ending -ia .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zinnia \Zin"ni*a\, n. [NL. So called after Professor Zinn, of G["o]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.
Usage examples of zinnia.
Mixed in with them were orange zinnias and lavender gladiolus that dipped toward the ground.
As he went along, zinnia clumps, hibiscus hedges, and ixora bushes appeared among the huts, sprouting around the pink cement outhouses.
There were also zinnias, and chrysanthemums, and potted aphelandras, and two graceful fringetails in an inset aquarium.
The altar was ablaze with zinnias, marigolds, gaillardia, splashing their wild reds and yellows against the gentler shades of cosmos and lupine.
The garden was a small square at the edge of the field surrounded by zinnias and portulaca, the bright flowers bobbing in the breeze.
But three days of sensationalistic journalism, it turned out, was long enough to cost Zinnia much of the design business that she had labored so hard to build after the fall of Spring Industries.
Zinnia gave Rexford, Bethany, and Daria her coldest smile and pointedly turned her back.
Zinnia figured Nick probably had the coordinates of her measurements plotted on a matrix that he had stored somewhere in his very different brain.
Shopping done, I stopped at a corner kiosk a block from the market and bought a bouquet of zinnias and dahlias, a mass of orange and yellow with a ribbon tied around the stems.
She picked up the cat and dropped it out of the window among the zinnias and dahlias.
Every flowerbed was packed with serried clashing ranks of French marigolds, yellow calceolaria, royal-blue cineraria, flaming-red geraniums, billiard-ball pink zinnias and mauve asters.
Cosmos and coneflowers, dahlias and zinnias made a cheerful wave of mixed colors.
He'd planned to put it into zinnias, which were not Dorotea's favorite flower, but Amariyah had endeared herself to him by naming every single shrub, tree, and greening plant by their Latin names.
Zinnia would no doubt have some silly explanation involving his so-called family values.
Zinnia had a vision of him manicuring the tentacles of one of his grotesque plants while he spoke with her.