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/ˈzɪni.ə/ · noun
Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid..
[…]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: […]
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.
Use zinnia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zinnia means Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid..
Common synonyms include old maid flower, old maid.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]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: […]
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