Fuchs

[ fyooks ]

/ fyuks /

noun

Daniel,1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Klaus Emil Julius [klous] /klaʊs/,1911–88, British physicist and atom spy for the Soviet Union, born in Germany.

Sir Vivian (Ernest),1908–1999, British geologist and antarctic explorer.

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Example sentences from the Web for fuchs

Of all the botanists of the Renaissance, Fuchs is perhaps the one who deserves most to be held in honour.
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution|Agnes Arber
We hung it with the gingerbread animals, strings of popcorn, and bits of candle which Fuchs had fitted into pasteboard sockets.
My Antonia|Willa Cather
The influence of Fuchs illustrations is more strongly felt in later work than that of his text.
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution|Agnes Arber
This event made Fuchs the object of undeserved notoriety, since he was travelling with her.
My Antonia|Willa Cather

Fuchs, in the preface of his Historia stirpium , referred with unsparing touch to Egenolphs botanical mistakes.
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution|Agnes Arber

British Dictionary definitions for fuchs

Fuchs

/ (fʊks, fuːks) /

noun

Klaus Emil . (klaus ˈeːmiːl). 1911–88, East German physicist. He was born in Germany, became a British citizen (1942), and was imprisoned (1950–59) for giving secret atomic research information to the Soviet Union

Sir Vivian Ernest . 1908–99, English explorer and geologist: led the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–58)

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