fuchsia

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

• enPR: fyū'shə, IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːʃə/
• (obsolete) enPR: fū'ksēə, IPA^(key): /ˈfuːksi.ə/[1]

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• Rhymes: -uːʃə

fuchsia (plural fuchsias)

1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

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

2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

   Synonym: magenta

   fuchsia:  

   web fuchsia (magenta):  

   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

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

fuchsia (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red colour.

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

• fuchsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:fuchsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• fuchsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Leonhart Fuchs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Named after Leonhart Fuchs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔɡ̊ɕa]

fuchsia c (singular definite fuchsiaen, plural indefinite fuchsiaer or fuchsier)

1. fuchsia

• “fuchsia” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʃja/, /fyk.sja/

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• Homophone: fuchsias

fuchsia m (plural fuchsias)

1. fuchsia

fuchsia (invariable)

1. fuchsia

• “fuchsia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.