fuchsia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: fyū'shə, IPA(key): /ˈfjuːʃə/
- (obsolete) enPR: fū'ksēə, IPA(key): /ˈfuːksi.ə/[1]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːʃə
Noun
[edit]fuchsia (plural fuchsias)
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
- Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
- A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:
- She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]plant
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colour
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Adjective
[edit]fuchsia (not comparable)
See also
[edit]- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
References
[edit]- ^ Meredith, L. P. (1872) “Fuchsia”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech[1], Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., page 21.
Further reading
[edit]fuchsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:fuchsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
fuchsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Leonhart Fuchs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Leonhart Fuchs.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fuchsia c (singular definite fuchsiaen, plural indefinite fuchsiaer or fuchsier)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of fuchsia
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fuchsia | fuchsiaen | fuchsiaer fuchsier |
fuchsiaerne fuchsierne |
genitive | fuchsias | fuchsiaens | fuchsiaers fuchsiers |
fuchsiaernes fuchsiernes |
References
[edit]- “fuchsia” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fuchsia m (plural fuchsias)
Adjective
[edit]fuchsia (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- “fuchsia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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