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')

• 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

• an elderly unmarried woman

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  periwinkle , rose periwinkle , Madagascar periwinkle , Cape periwinkle , red periwinkle , cayenne jasmine , Catharanthus roseus , Vinca rosea , zinnia , old maid flower , spinster