name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English from the flower
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Zinnia
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈzɪn.i.ə/
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General-American: /ˈzi.ni.ə/
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General-American: /ˈzɪn.jə/
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General-American: /ˈzi.njə/
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CMU ARPABET: Z IH1 N IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: old maid, old maid flower
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flower
Narrower terms: white zinnia, Zinnia acerosa, little golden zinnia, Zinnia grandiflora
History
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Zinnia. Coined in 1767, after Johann Gottfried Zinn, German botanist (d. 1759).
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: циния (cinija) — flower
- Catalan: zínnia — flower
- Chinese Mandarin: 百日菊 (bǎirìjú) — flower
- Czech: cínie — flower
- Dutch: zinnia — flower
- Esperanto: zinio — flower
- Estonian: tsinnia — flower
- Estonian: pruudisõlg — flower
- Finnish: oppineittenkukka — flower
- Finnish: tsinnia — flower
- French: zinnia — flower
- German: Zinnie — flower
- Greek: ζίνια (zínia) — flower
- Greek: ζίννια (zínnia) — flower
- Hunsrik: Jackobsblumm — flower
- Ido: zinio — flower
- Italian: zinnia — flower
- Limburgish: zinnia — flower
- Polish: cynia — flower
- Portuguese: zínia — flower
- Romanian: cârciumăreasă — flower
- Russian: ци́нния (cínnija) — flower
- Slovak: cínia — flower
- Spanish: zinnia — flower
- Turkish: kirli hanım çiçeği — flower
- Turkish: zinya — flower