old maid
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1. 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') (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | card game, cards, |
| definition | : | a game played with playing cards (noun.act) |
2. the loser in a game of old maid (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | also-ran, loser, |
| definition | : | a contestant who loses the contest (noun.person) |
3. an elderly unmarried woman (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | unmarried woman, |
| definition | : | a woman who is not married (noun.person) |
4. commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | catharanthus, genus catharanthus, |
| definition | : | small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca (noun.plant) |
5. any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | flower, |
| definition | : | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | white zinnia, zinnia acerosa, |
| definition | : | subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | little golden zinnia, zinnia grandiflora, |
| definition | : | subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus zinnia, |
| definition | : | genus of annual or perennial plants of tropical America having solitary heads of brightly colored flowers (noun.plant) |
6. an elderly unmarried woman (noun.person)
| derivation | : | spinsterhood, |
| definition | : | the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) (noun.state) |
| derivation | : | spinsterhood, |
| definition | : | the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) (noun.state) |
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