fuchsia
a plant belonging to the genus Fuchsia, of the evening primrose family, including many varieties cultivated for their handsome drooping flowers.
Also called California fuchsia. a nonwoody shrub, Zauschneria californica, having large crimson flowers.
a bright, purplish-red color.
of the color fuchsia: a fuchsia dress.
Origin of fuchsia
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How to use fuchsia in a sentence
In search of the boys who stole their walkie talkie, they bust into an under-construction house, come face-to-face with a pair of apparent mutants, and flee into deserted streets under an angry, unnaturally fuchsia sky.
The delicate fuchsia blossoms where the lawn transitions to the beach are known as annual honesty.
How Studying Witchcraft Changed My Relationship with the Outdoors | abarronian | October 31, 2021 | Outside OnlineGaze into Snoh Aaelgra’s fuchsia Terminator eyes and her music might come into focus.
Yes, you can judge this Snoh Aalegra album by its cover | Chris Richards | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostColors were vivid and autumnal, including fuchsia and olive green with metallic shimmers.
Valentino, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week | Liza Foreman | March 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn particular, Clinton was enamored of her fuchsia Salvatore Ferragamo satchel.
Indeed, when President Barack Obama recently appeared on The Daily Show, a fuchsia bracelet dangled from his wrist.
Michelle Obama and Ann Romney: First Ladies of Style | Robin Givhan | October 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe final dresses, in fuchsia with embroidery, appliqué, layering and all manner of technical wizardry were a Cinderella dream.
Paris Fall Fashion Week Ends With Vuitton and Kanye | Robin Givhan | March 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTranslucent dresses in shades of fuchsia and purple were topped with voluminous jackets in stiff, sculptural shapes.
Balenciaga, Dries Van Noten Kick Off Paris Fall 2012 Fashion Week | Robin Givhan | March 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fuchsia took its name from Leonard Fuchs, a sixteenth-century botanist, the first German who really studied botany.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'NeillThis caterpillar is found most often on certain kinds of Epilobium, but will also eat of the vine, fuchsia, and bed-straw.
The Insect World | Louis FiguierIt was afterwards reared on fuchsia, and produced a moth on August 18.
The Moths of the British Isles, First Series | Richard SouthAnne sat down on the rocker with a long sigh, kissed one of Bonny's leaves, and waved her hand to a blossoming fuchsia.
Anne Of Green Gables | Lucy Maud MontgomeryHe has obtained, says Hallam, a verdant immortality in the familiar flower which bears his name, the fuchsia.
British Dictionary definitions for fuchsia
/ (ˈfjuːʃə) /
any onagraceous shrub of the mostly tropical genus Fuchsia, widely cultivated for their showy drooping purple, red, or white flowers
Also called: California fuchsia a North American onagraceous plant, Zauschneria californica, with tubular scarlet flowers
a reddish-purple to purplish-pink colour
(as adjective): a fuchsia dress
Origin of fuchsia
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