Meaning

1 senses

  1. (not comparable)Having a purplish-red colour.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. I can't tell pink from fuchsia.

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  2. Weevils eat the leaves of the fuchsia.

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  3. The colour fuchsia is named after a flower.

    deDie Farbe Fuchsia ist nach einer Blume benannt. — Esperantostern

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  4. Scarlet is a beautiful color, but I like fuchsia.

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  5. He was beside the trellis up which climbed his treasured fuchsia.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs

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

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