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Synonyms for fuchsia

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fyoo-shuh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfyu ʃə

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Définition of fuchsia

Origin :
  • red color, 1923, from the ornamental shrub, which was named 1753 from the Latinized name of German botanist Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566). Not related to Latin fucus "seaweed, sea wrack, tangle," which also gave its name to a red color prepared from it. Latin fucus is from or related to Greek phykos "seaweed," also "red paint, rouge."
  • As in pink : noun rose color
  • As in red : noun color of blood; shade resembling such a color
Example sentences :
  • In the summer the fuchsia flecked its front with white and red.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • If the gorse should fail the fuchsia might even take its place on the mountains.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • In Fuchsia and Campanula a like change may occasionally be observed.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
  • The Fuchsia is readily propagated by cuttings of the young wood.
  • Extract from : « Talks about Flowers. » by M. D. Wellcome
  • The fuchsia stigma is composed of four lobes, which are closed in Fig. 90.
  • Extract from : « The Nursery Book » by Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • A in Fig. 90 shows the point at which this cut should be made in the fuchsia.
  • Extract from : « The Nursery Book » by Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Yet in 1788 there was but one fuchsia in England, and that was in Kew Gardens.
  • Extract from : « The Cornish Coast (South) » by Charles G. Harper
  • And as for the fuchsia, how far it has grown from the blue laws.
  • Extract from : « Vignettes Of San Francisco » by Almira Bailey
  • It was afterwards reared on fuchsia, and produced a moth on August 18.
  • Extract from : « The Moths of the British Isles, First Series » by Richard South
  • And there is a fuchsia, turbaned like a Turk, behind the pansies.
  • Extract from : « Rosemary and Rue » by Amber

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