OLD MAID

• (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')

• (noun) the loser in a game of old maid

• (noun) an elderly unmarried woman

  synonyms : spinster

• (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

  synonyms : cape periwinkle , catharanthus roseus , cayenne jasmine , madagascar periwinkle , periwinkle , red periwinkle , rose periwinkle , vinca rosea

• (noun) any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

  synonyms : old maid flower , zinnia

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