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zinnia

zin·nia

US/ˈzɪn.i.ə/ uncommon

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any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

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

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