Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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old maid | Yes | No | No | No |
Zinnia acerosa | Yes | No | No | No |
old maid (noun) | Zinnia acerosa (noun) |
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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') | subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico |
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 |