| old maid | | |
| n. (person) | 1. old maid, spinster | an elderly unmarried woman. |
| ~ unmarried woman | a woman who is not married. |
| n. (plant) | 2. old maid, old maid flower, zinnia | any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads. |
| ~ flower | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms. |
| ~ genus zinnia | genus of annual or perennial plants of tropical America having solitary heads of brightly colored flowers. |
| ~ white zinnia, zinnia acerosa | subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico. |
| ~ little golden zinnia, 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. |
| n. (plant) | 3. cape periwinkle, catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, madagascar periwinkle, old maid, periwinkle, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, vinca rosea | commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers. |
| ~ catharanthus, genus catharanthus | small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca. |
| ~ herb, herbaceous plant | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests. |
| n. (person) | 4. old maid | the loser in a game of old maid. |
| ~ also-ran, loser | a contestant who loses the contest. |
| n. (act) | 5. old maid | 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'). |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| vestal | | |
| n. (person) | 1. vestal | a chaste woman. |
| ~ adult female, woman | an adult female person (as opposed to a man).; "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| adj. (pertain) | 2. vestal | of or relating to Vesta.; "vestal virgin" |
| adj. | 3. pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous | in a state of sexual virginity.; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" |
| ~ chaste | morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse).; "a holy woman innocent and chaste" |
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