Fuchsia

//ˈfjuːʃə// adj, name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.

    "Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves"

  2. 2
    a vivid purplish-red color wordnet
  3. 3
    A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

    "She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning."

  4. 4
    any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a purplish-red colour. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name.

    "[…] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember had been for her a world undesecrate."

Synonyms

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colorflowermagentamagentapigmentplum

Example

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"The colour fuchsia is named after a flower."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

Etymology 2

From the flower fuchsia.

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