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fuchsia

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fuch·sia  (fysh)
n.
1. Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Fuchsia, widely cultivated for their showy, drooping purplish, reddish, or white flowers.
2. A strong, vivid purplish red.
[New Latin Fuchsia, genus name, after Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566), German botanist.]
fuchsia adj.
fuchsia [fyew-sha]
Noun
an ornamental shrub with hanging purple, red, or white flowers [after Leonhard Fuchs, botanist]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fuchsiafuchsia - 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
genus Fuchsia - large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers
Fuchsia coccinea, ladies'-eardrop, ladies'-eardrops, lady's-eardrop, lady's-eardrops - erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
Fuchsia excorticata, konini, native fuchsia, tree fuchsia - erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
Translations
fuchsia [ˈfjuːʃə] n → fucsia
fuchsia [ˈfjuːʃə] n → fuchsia m
fuchsia [ˈfjuːʃə] n → Fuchsie f
fuchsia [ˈfjuːʃə] n → fucsia


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It is notorious in how complicated a manner the species of Pelargonium, Fuchsia, Calceolaria, Petunia, Rhododendron, &c.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
There were also several extensive brakes of the Fuchsia, covered with its beautiful drooping flowers, but very difficult to crawl through.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
One's delight in an elderberry bush overhanging the confused leafage of a hedgerow bank, as a more gladdening sight than the finest cistus or fuchsia spreading itself on the softest undulating turf, is an entirely unjustifiable preference to a nursery-gardener, or to any of those regulated minds who are free from the weakness of any attachment that does not rest on a demonstrable superiority of qualities.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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