Zinnia grandiflora vs old maid

old maid vs Zinnia grandiflora

Zinnia grandiflora and old maid both are nouns.

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

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

Zinnia grandiflora: subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas
old maid: any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

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

Zinnia grandiflora (noun)	old maid (noun)
subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas	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 grandiflora and old maid

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