old maid vs Zinnia grandiflora

Zinnia grandiflora vs old maid

old maid and Zinnia grandiflora both are nouns.

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

As nouns, Zinnia grandiflora is a hyponym of old maid; that is, Zinnia grandiflora is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than old maid:

old maid: any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
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

Other hyponyms of old maid include white zinnia, Zinnia acerosa, little golden zinnia.

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

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