Namely, 138

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­

138: zinnia: a cultivated flower with a showy, rayed, variously colored flowers (from Johann Gottfried Zink, 1727–1759, German director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen, where he described various species of orchids; earliest known use, 1767)

I gave her such a zinnia

That she just fell for me.

A pretty flower did the trick—

Domestic harmony.

But I would learn—as years went by—

That flowers sometimes failed.

She got so tired of me at times

She tried to get me jailed.

And so I figured out (at last!)

What she was most fond of:

It wasn’t flowers—not at all.

It was just love … just love.

THIS IS THE LAST OF THE SERIES!