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fuchsia

adjective

  1. color
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noun

  1. color
  2. flowering plant
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːʃə/ / /ˈfuːksi.ə/

adj

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

  1. Having a purplish-red colour.

name

Etymology: From the flower fuchsia.

  1. A female given name.

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

    “Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.”

noun

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

  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. 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.”

    “Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).”