Fuchsia (1)FromNew Latin, after the genusFuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
fuchsia (pluralfuchsias)
- A popular garden plant, of thegenusFuchsia, of theOnagraceaefamily,shrubs with red, pink or purpleflowers.
- 1922,Katherine Mansfield,At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
- Drenched were the coldfuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves
- A purplish-redcolour, the color offuchsin, an anilinedye.
- Synonym:magenta
fuchsia:
2006,Tsitsi Dangarembga,The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page258:She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furiousfuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.
plant
- Albanian:lule vathi f(literally“ear flower”)
- Armenian:ֆուքսիա(fukʻsia),ականջօղ (hy)(akanǰōġ),աղվեսակ(aġvesak)
- Bulgarian:о́бички (bg) f pl(óbički)
- Catalan:fúcsia (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:倒掛金鐘 /倒挂金钟 (zh)(dàoguàjīnzhōng)
- Czech:fuchsie f
- Danish:fuchsia c
- Esperanto:fuksio
- Finnish:verenpisara (fi),fuksia (fi)
- French:fuchsia (fr) m
- Galician:fucsia f
- Georgian:ფუქსია(puksia)
- German:Fuchsie (de) f
- Greek:φούξια (el) f(foúxia)
- Hebrew:פוּקְסְיָה (he) f(fúksya)
- Ido:fuxio (io)
- Italian:fucsia (it) f
- Japanese:フクシャ(fukusha),ホクシャ(hokusha)
- Maori:kōtukutuku(tree fuchsia)
- Mapudungun:chillko
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:fuksia m
- Nynorsk:fuksia m,tåre f,Kristi blodsdrope m
- Persian:فوشیا(fušiyâ),گل آویز(gol-e âviz),فوکسیه (fa)(fuksiye)
- Polish:fuksja (pl) f,ułanka (pl) f
- Portuguese:fúcsia (pt) f
- Romanian:cerceluș (ro) m,fucsie (ro) f
- Russian:фу́ксия (ru) f(fúksija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:фу̀ксија f
- Roman:fùksija (sh) f
- Slovak:fuksia f
- Spanish:fucsia (es),cinzolín (es) m
- Swedish:fuchsia (sv) c
- Tajik:нофамон(nofamon)
- Tatar:алкагөл(alkagöl),alqagöl
- Turkish:küpe çiçeği (tr)
- Ukrainian:фу́ксія f(fúksija)
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fuchsia (notcomparable)
- Having apurplish-redcolour.
Named afterLeonhart Fuchs.
fuchsia c (singular definitefuchsiaen,plural indefinitefuchsiaerorfuchsier)
- fuchsia
fuchsia m (pluralfuchsias)
- fuchsia
fuchsia (invariable)
- fuchsia
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