zinnia

zinnia

See also: Zinnia

English

Zinnia violacea

Wikispecies

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.

Translations

flower

Bulgarian: циния f (cinija) Catalan: zínnia f Chinese: Mandarin: 百日菊 (bǎirìjú) Finnish: oppineittenkukka (fi) French: zinnia (fr) m German: Zinnie f Greek: ζίνια (el) f (zínia), ζίννια (el) f (zínnia) Hunsrik: Jackobsblumm f Italian: zinnia (it) f Portuguese: zínia f Romanian: cârciumăreasă (ro) f Spanish: zinnia (es) f

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French

Alternative forms

• zinia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zi.nja/

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Noun

zinnia m (plural zinnias)

1. zinnia

Further reading

• “zinnia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

zinnia f (plural zinnie)

1. zinnia

Anagrams

• zinnai

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Spanish

Noun

zinnia f (plural zinnias)

1. zinnia

Further reading

• “zinnia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014