zinnia

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English - Turkish
i., bot. zinya, zenya
(isim) zinya çiçeği
zinya çiçek
{i} zinya çiçeği
English - English
A female given name from the flower

Zinnia had already attained fifty, I guessed, and wore a professional white coat over a grey flannel skirt. In spite of her colourful name she had short grey hair hair, no lipstick, flat-heeled shoes and an air of tiredness, - - -.

Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid
any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms
Any of about 22 species of herbaceous plants and shrubs that make up the genus Zinnia (composite family), native mainly to North America. Where native, they are perennial; elsewhere they are annual. Zinnias have stiff, hairy stems and oval or lance-shaped leaves arranged opposite each other and often clasping the stem. The numerous garden varieties grown for their showy, solitary flowers come from the species Z. elegans. Garden zinnias range from dwarf compact plants (less than 1 ft, or 30 cm, tall), with flowers 1 in. (2.5 cm) in diameter, to giant forms (up to 3 ft, or 1 m, tall), with flowers up to 6 in. (15 cm) across
{i} type of flower
Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation
creeping zinnia
low-branching leafy annual with flower heads resembling zinnias; found in southwestern United States and Mexico to Guatemala
genus zinnia
genus of annual or perennial plants of tropical America having solitary heads of brightly colored flowers
little golden zinnia
subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas
white zinnia
subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico
zinnias
plural of zinnia
zinnia
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