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zinnias

[zin-ee-uh] Origin

zin·ni·a

[zin-ee-uh]
noun
any of several composite plants of the genus Zinnia, native to Mexico and adjacent areas, especially the widely cultivated species Z. elegans, having variously colored, many-rayed flower heads.

Origin:
1760–70; < Neo-Latin, named after J. G. Zinn (1727–59), German botanist; see -ia
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zinnia
genus of herbs of the aster family, 1767, from Mod.L. (Linnæus, 1763), named for Ger. botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1729-59)
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