Crossword clues for zinnia
zinnia
- Popular garden flower
- Long-stemmed flower
- Colorful annual
- Brightly colored flower
- Showy, rayed flower
- Popular garden annual
- Hardy, colorful flower
- Flower garden favorite
- The last word in flowers?
- Rayed garden flower
- Colorful garden annual
- Bright, showy flower
- Alphabetically last flower on a list of familiar ones
- Showy flower
- Garden bloom
- Flower named for a German botanist
- Composite flower
- Bright annual
- Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
- Colorful garden flower
- Plant of the daisy family
- Garden flower
- Colorful flower
- Sunflower relative
- Sunflower cousin
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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus ''Zinnia'', native to tropical America; old maid
WordNet
n. any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads [syn: old maid, old maid flower]
Wikipedia
Zinnia is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. They are native to scrub and dry grassland in an area stretching from the Southwestern United States to South America, with a centre of diversity in Mexico. Members of the genus are notable for their solitary long-stemmed flowers that come in a variety of bright colors. The genus name honors German master botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–59).
Zinnia is a genus of annual plant.
Zinnia may also refer to:
- Zinnia, West Virginia, a community in Doddridge County
- HMS Zinnia (K98), a corvette that served in the Royal Navy
- Zinnia, a fictional character in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
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.