zinnia in English

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1
an American plant of the daisy family that is widely cultivated for its bright showy flowers.
Annuals and perennials such as snapdragons, daisies, zinnias , and, of course, peonies and roses are old favorites.
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1. Genetic engineering created this zinnia hybrid flower.

2. It replaced the zinnia, which had been the state flower since 1931.

3. Patterns in Nature: Flowers Genetic engineering created this zinnia hybrid flower.

4. Zinnia is one of the most enchanting new perfumes to surface for some time.

5. The butterfly and the bee enjoying the nectar from the pink zinnia during a hot summer day.

6. The zinnia is an annual, but it has come a long way to spend each summer in our gardens.

7. The wild zinnia, a nondescript small flower, was first found growing in Mexico in 1519 and introduced to European and American gardens.

8. Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America, especially Z. elegans, widely cultivated for its showy, rayed, variously colored flower heads.

9. At the benign extreme, "adapting" sounds as easy as home gardeners adjusting to their new climate zones—those colorful bands on the back of the package of zinnia seeds.

10. The roots of germinating seeds and anther callus were used to study the effects of the sampling time, the pretreatment on the slide-preparation of the chromosomes in Zinnia elegans Jacq.