Etymology

zinnia

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Today it means: Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid. Full definition →

translingual Zinnia
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  1. translingual · borrowed fromZinnia
  2. English todayzinnia

Borrowed from translingual Zinnia. Coined in 1767, after Johann Gottfried Zinn, German botanist (d. 1759).

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