Zinnia acerosa vs old maid

old maid vs Zinnia acerosa

Zinnia acerosa and old maid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Zinnia acerosa	Yes	No	No	No
old maid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, old maid is a hypernym of Zinnia acerosa; that is, old maid is a word with a broader meaning than Zinnia acerosa:

Zinnia acerosa: subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico
old maid: any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

Other hypernyms of Zinnia acerosa include old maid flower, zinnia.

Zinnia acerosa (noun)	old maid (noun)
subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico	a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
	an elderly unmarried woman
	the loser in a game of old maid
	commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
	any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

Difference between Zinnia acerosa and old maid

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