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fuch·sia

(fyo͞o′shə)

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.]

fuch′sia adj.

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fuchsia

(ˈfjuːʃə)

1. (Plants) any onagraceous shrub of the mostly tropical genus Fuchsia, widely cultivated for their showy drooping purple, red, or white flowers

2. (Plants) Also called: California fuchsia a North American onagraceous plant, Zauschneria californica, with tubular scarlet flowers

3. (Colours)

a. a reddish-purple to purplish-pink colour

b. (as adjective): a fuchsia dress.

[C18: from New Latin, named after Leonhard Fuchs (1501–66), German botanist]

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fuch•sia

(ˈfyu ʃə)

n., pl -sias.

1. any shrubby plant of the genus Fuchsia, of the evening primrose family, with pink to purplish drooping flowers.

2. a bright purplish red color.

adj.

3. of the color fuchsia: a fuchsia dress.

[1745–55; < New Latin; after Leonhard Fuchs (1501–66), German botanist; see -ia]

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fuchsia - 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

fuksja

fuchsia

[ˈfjuːʃə] N → fucsia f

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fuchsia

[ˈfjuːʃə] n (= plant) → fuchsia m

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fuchsia

n → Fuchsie f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fuchsia

[ˈfjuːʃə]

1. n (Bot) → fucsia; (colour) → fucsia m

2. adj → fucsia inv

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Anne sat down on the rocker with a long sigh, kissed one of Bonny's leaves, and waved her hand to a blossoming fuchsia.

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There were also several extensive brakes of the Fuchsia, covered with its beautiful drooping flowers, but very difficult to crawl through.

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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.

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It was her arm and her sleek head that I had glimpsed one morning, through the stern-windows of the cabin, hovering over the pots of fuchsias and mignonette; but the first time I beheld her full length I surrendered to her proportions.

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