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Look up: zinnia

  1. Zinnia
    (Youth-And-Old-Age, Zinnia) These pretty annuals are natives of Mexico. They belong to the Daisy family, Compositae. Z. elegans, Youth-and-old-age, is the most commonly grown kind along with its many different varieties. There are both single and double flowered kinds. Zinnia form bushy, erect, self...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/zinnia.html

  2. zinnia
    [n] - any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Zinnia
    Zin'ni·a noun [ New Latin So called after Professor Zinn , of Göttingen.] (Botany) Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia , Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Z/4

  4. zinnia
    <botany> Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-coloured blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation. ... Origin: NL. So called after Professor Zinn, of Gottingen. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. zinnia
    old maid 2 old maid flower noun any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Zinnia
    • (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. zinnia
    any of about 11 species of herbs and shrubs constituting the genus Zinnia of the family Asteraceae (Compositae), and native primarily to North ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/z/9

  8. Zinnia
    Zinnia is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `flower name ` Where is it used? The name Zinnia is mainly used In English. The name Zinnia doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Zinnia seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Zin

  9. Zinnia
    The Zinnia was a Belgian fishery protection vessel of 1200 tons displacement launched in 1915 as a British Flower Class escort vessel and sold to the Belgian Navy in 1920. The Zinnia was powered by two cylindrical coal fired boilers providing a top speed of 17 knots and a range of 3200 km at 15 knot...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. zinnia
    zinnia, any species of the genus Zinnia of the family Asteraceae (aster family), native chiefly to Mexico, though some range as far north as Colorado and as far south as Guatemala. The common zinnia of gardens (Z. elegans), called also youth-and-old-age, is a rather coarse, easily cultivated annual,...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08534

  11. Zinnia
    Zinnia is a genus of plants of the family Compositae, native to Mexico and South America. Zinnias have stiff hairy stems and daisy-like flowers of various colours. Cultivated zinnias are hybrids derived from a Mexican species and have double flowers, about 11 centimetres across.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. zinnia
    Any of a group of annual plants belonging to the daisy family, native to Mexico and South America; notably the cultivated hybrids of Z. elegans with brightly coloured daisylike flowers. (Genus Zinnia, family Compositae.)
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. Zinnia
    `Zinnia` is a genus of 20 species of annual and perennial plants of family Asteraceae, originally from scrub and dry grassland in an area stretching from the American Southwest to South America, but primarily Mexico, and notable for their solitary long-stemmed flowers that come in a variety o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinnia



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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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